Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Brothers Grimm

Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Translated by Mrs Edgar Lucas

This Folio edition, a facsimile of the British edition of 1909, contains 60 of The Brothers Grimm’s most famous tales, including ‘Snow White’, ‘Hansel and Gretel’ and ‘Red Riding Hood’.

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‘I will give you three days,’ said he, ‘and if within that time you discover my name you shall keep the child’

  1. from ‘Rumpelstiltskin’

It is curious to think that we owe so many of our best-loved fairy tales – from ‘The Frog Prince’ to ‘Rapunzel’ – to the scholarship of two German brothers in the 19th century.

The Brothers Grimm collected some 200 traditional tales of Northern Europe that might very well otherwise have been lost to us. This Folio edition contains 60 of the most famous, including ‘Snow White’, ‘Hansel and Gretel’ and ‘Red Riding Hood’. 

Their influence cannot be overstated; W. H. Auden considered them founding texts of Western culture: ‘It is hardly too much to say that these tales rank next to the Bible in importance’. Illustrated with Arthur Rackham’s exquisite pictures, these stories will forever be associated with fairy magic.

Production Details

Bound in blocked cloth

Set in Scotch Roman

336 pages

Frontispiece, 38 colour plates and 55 black & white illustrations

Plain slipcase

Coloured page tops

10˝ x 7½˝

Contents

The Golden Bird

Hans in Luck

Jorinda and Joringel 

The Bremen Town Musicians

Old Sultan

The Straw, The Coal and The Bean

Briar Rose

The Dog and the Sparrow

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

The Fisherman and His Wife

The Wren and the Bear

The Frog Prince

The Cat and Mouse in Partnership

The Goosegirl

The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet

Rapunzel

Fundevogel

The Valiant Tailor

Hansel and Gretel

The Mouse, the Bird and the Sausage

Mother Hulda

Red Riding Hood

The Robber Bridgegroom

Tom Thumb

Rumpelstiltskin 

Clever Gretel

The Old Man and his Grandson

The Little Peasant

Fred and Kate

Sweetheart Roland

Snowdrop

The Pink

Clever Elsa

Ashenputtel

The White Snake

The Wolf and the Seven Kids

The Queen Bee

The Elves and the Shoemaker

The Wolf and the Man

The Turnip

Clever Hans

The Three Languages

The Fox and the Cat

The Four Clever Brothers

The Lady ad the Lion

The Fox and the Horse

The Blue Light

The Raven

The Golden Goose

The Water of Life

The Twelve Huntsmen

The King of the Golden Mountain 

Doctor Know-All

The Seven Ravens

The Marriage of Mrs Reynard

The Salad

The Youth Who Could Not Shudder

King Thrushbeard

Iron Hans

 

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