Book Details
| Author: | Brothers Grimm, Arthur Rackham,: |
| Title: | The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. |
| Published: | London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1909. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 01 - Literature |
| Description: | First edition. Translated by Mrs Edgar Lucas. xv, 325 pp. A collection of 60 fairy tales including the much loved The Bremen Town Musicians, The Frog Princess, The Goosegirl, Rapunzel, Hansel and Grethel, Red Riding Hood, Tom Thumb, Rumpelstiltskin, The Wolf and the Seven Kids, The Elves and the Shoemaker, etc. etc. Tissue-guarded colour frontispiece & 38 other colour plates. One colour plate missing opp page 62. There should be 40 colour plates in total. Plate from opp. page 128 inserted incorrectly opp. page 84. 55 b/w illustrations. Illustrated eps. Front hinge cracked halfway along length. Moderate finger-soiling throughout text. A few colour illustrations creased. Binding loosening. Original red cloth boards with gilt lettering and vignettes on front board and spine. Rear hinge cracked - reinforced with old tape. Cloth on spine chipping at top and bottom. Edges of spine cracked. Corners rubbed. Sellotape marks running horizontally across boards for a few inches. Overall condition Good. |
| Book Number: | #8026 |
| Price: | € 490.00 |
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