1925 Rare Book - FAIRY TALES from GRIMM illustrated by Ethel Franklin Betts.
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Author: Brothers Grimm. (Editor, Hamilton W. Mabie). (Illustrator, Ethel Franklin Betts).
Title: FAIRY TALES from GRIMM Edited and with an Introduction by Hamilton W. Mabie. Pictures and Decorations by Ethel Franklin Betts.
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap, no date (circa 1925).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 11.5 " X 9 ".
Pages: 117 pages.
Binding: Very good and attractive original illustrated quarter cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, some light foxing and staining - as shown, nice hand made and crayon-colored bookplate of a previous owner on the first endpaper - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with beautiful illustrations by Ethel Franklin Betts (Color frontispiece and 4 full-page color illustrations) with (6 very nice black and white pen-drawings).
The book: Rare and attractive edition of Brothers Grimm's Fairy Tales beautifully illustrated by Ethel Franklin Betts.
The authors: The Brothers Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Carl Grimm (1786–1859), were German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together collected and published folklore during the 19th century. They were among the first and best-known collectors of German and European folk tales, and popularized traditional oral tale types such as "Cinderella" ("Aschenputtel"), "The Frog Prince" ("Der Froschkönig"), "The Goose-Girl" ("Die Gänsemagd"), "Hansel and Gretel" ("Hänsel und Gretel"), "Rapunzel", "Beauty and the Beast", "Little Red Riding Hood", "The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats", "The Three Little Pigs", "Rumpelstiltskin" ("Rumpelstilzchen"), "Sleeping Beauty" ("Dornröschen"), and "Snow White" ("Schneewittchen"). Their classic collection, Children's and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen), was published in two volumes—the first in 1812 and the second in 1815.
The illustrator: Ethel Franklin Betts Bains (September 6, 1877 – October 9, 1959) was an American illustrator primarily of children's books during the golden age of American illustration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.