Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
by Brothers Grimm
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Fremont, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Freemantle & Co. / Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition, n. d. [1900]; 6" x 8"; pp. [4], v-xvii, [1], 1-464; pictorial cloth over boards; deckled fore-edge; gilt top edge; minor fading to boards; a bit of rubbing to tips of spine (small closed cut to bottom edge); slight vertical line through front cover; pages mostly very clean with a few faint spots of foxing limited to first and last several pages; illustrated with color fronts and 100 b & w full-page illustrations; in very good condition. "A New Translation by Mrs. Edgar Lucas." A scarce copy of the original Rackham-illustrated "Grimm's Fairy Tales," it brought Arthur Rackham his enormous fame and prompted the publishing of the 1909 deluxe signed edition. The great illustrator himself pointed out in the 1909 edition's prefatory note: "Some years ago a selection of "Grimm's Fairy Tales" with one hundred illustrations of mine in black and white was published - in 1900, by Messrs. Freemantle and Co., and afterwards by Messrs. Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd. At intervals since then I have been at work on the original drawings, partially or entirely re-drawing some of them in colour, adding new ones in colour and in black and white, and generally overhauling them as a set, supplementing and omitting, with a view to the present edition. Of the forty coloured illustrations, many are elaborations of the earlier black and white drawings or are founded on them. The frontispiece, and those facing pp. 34, 70, 94, 104, 116, 118, and 190 are entirely new, and several of the text illustrations also have not been published before. The remaining illustrations in the text have been reconsidered and worked on again to a greater or lesser degree."
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- Bookseller
- ZH BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000144
- Title
- Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
- Author
- Brothers Grimm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- London: Freemantle & Co. / Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.
- Date Published
- 1900
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- California-VBF, Arthur Rackham, Illustrated, Children
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