Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm (1893)

Illustrated by Walter Crane, in a highly attractive decorative gilt binding

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Printing Details

Second Crane edition. Hardback, dark green cloth with detailed gilt decoration to upper board and spine. All edges gilt. 19 × 12.5cm, × + 269pp, 2pp ad.

First published in 1882, this is the second edition of the Walter Crane illustrated Grimm's Household Stories, and issued in the gilt binding (the first edition had printed boards). The tales were translated by Crane's sister Lucy and include classics such as The Sleeping Beauty, The Goose Girl, Rapunzel, Hansel and Grethel, Little Red-Cap, Tom Thumb and Snow-White.

Illustrated with eleven full-page plates (frontispiece and ten within the text), title page, and over one hundred individual head- and tailpieces.

Condition

This is a very good copy. There is light comprehensive foxing throughout but the book remaining in strong readable condition. The green cloth has minimal bumping to the corners, though it has lost a small area of sheen to the rear board (very minor). The book has two inoffensive pencil names to the prelims. Otherwise, a highly attractive copy.