Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm with Original Etchings By David Hockney by HOCKNEY, DAVID - 1970

[London]: Petersburg Press in Accociation with the Kasmin Gallery, 1970. 10.3 cm x 6.3 cm, unpaginated, navy-blue leather with silver cover titles. Miniature photoreproduction of the 46 cm edition published in the same year. Translated and edited by Heiner Bastian from Kinder- und Hausmärchen. The 39 etchings illustrating the fairy tales were drawn directly onto copper plates and etched by David Hockney. David Hockney’s illustrations for the tales of the Brothers Grimm are like no other version. Although inspired by earlier illustrators of the tales, including Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, Hockney’s extraordinary etchings reimagine these strange and supernatural stories for a modern audience, capturing their distinctive atmosphere in a style that is recognizably the artist’s own. Hockney’s book brings together some well-known tales, such as Rapunzel and Rumpelstiltskin, with others that are less familiar, like Old Rinkrank. Informed by great art of the past, attuned to idiosyncrasies of character and incident, and fresh in execution and content, his illustrations invite us to read each story as if for the first time. Touch of water-spotting to the fore-edge, tiny previous owner's name to front blank, else a very good plus copy. Lacks the suite of prints.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus.. 32 Mo..