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In Germany, during the early years of the nineteenth century, the Brothers Grimm began gathering folklore and fairy tales from friends, family, neighbours and strangers. Across several editions, they collected more than 200 stories, preserving a rich tradition of oral storytelling and creating a lasting record of these strange and enchanting tales.

For this Limited Edition, we have gathered fifty classic Grimms' fairy tales alongside a handful of lesser-known gems. The stories are translated by the pre-eminent fairy tale scholar Jack Zipes, who restored many of the darker and more macabre elements of the original tales, and introduced by bestselling fantasy author Erin Morgenstern. Linocut artist Sophy Hollington has created nine hand-carved full-page illustrations and more than twenty vignette artworks woven throughout the text.

Within these pages are scheming wolves, wicked stepmothers, murderous bridegrooms and forests alive with danger and magic. These are fairy tales restored to their original form: gloriously dark and full of grit and gore.
A promise made to a frog. A house made of sweets. Children sent into the woods with spectacularly bad luck. The tales collected by the Brothers Grimm may be familiar, but look again and things soon become stranger, darker and considerably more gruesome.

Across fifty stories, magic has a habit of turning up when least expected. Princes become animals, clever underdogs get the upper hand and bad behaviour is punished with gleefully grisly consequences. Funny, frightening and endlessly inventive, these fairy tales still know exactly how to keep us on our toes.

Production Details

Fully bound in deep red Jacobs Ciliega leather and blocked in two foils with a design by the artist
Silver foiled book edges
Presented in a clamshell box bound in Brillianta Calandre cloth and lined with Sirio paper blocked with a design by the artist

Limitation label signed by the introducer, the translator and the artist

Dimensions

10 inches × 7⅝ inches (25.4 × 19.4cm)

Font

Typeset in Jenson with Roberta Grimms as Display

Pages

360

Author

The Brothers Grimm

Illustrated By

Sophy Hollington

Illustration

9 full-page colour illustrations, including a frontispiece
25 vignette tailpieces

Publication Date

06/10/2026

Printing

Limited to 500 copies worldwide

The Brothers Grimm

Limited to 500 copies worldwide

Grimms' Fairy Tales (Limited Edition)

£370
Forget the bedtime versions, these are the Grimms’ Fairy Tales with the thorns left in.

Danger waits behind every cottage door and happy endings are never guaranteed in our extraordinary Limited Edition, featuring fifty tales collected by the Brothers Grimm and presented in folklorist Jack Zipes’s acclaimed translation. With an introduction by bestselling fantasy author Erin Morgenstern, this limited edition comes alive with hand-carved linocut illustrations by Sophy Hollington, bound in deep red leather and housed in a richly decorated clamshell box. Step into the woods if you dare.

Illustrated By Sophy Hollington

Introduced By Erin Morgenstern

Translated By Jack Zipes

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About the Book

Presented in fairy tale scholar Jack Zipes's acclaimed translation and introduced by bestselling author Erin Morgenstern

Fully bound in deep red leather, with a design by the artist blocked in two foils

Limitation label signed by the translator, the introducer and the artist

Clamshell box bound in Brillianta Calandre cloth lined with a Sirio paper blocked with a design by the artist

Linocut artist Sophy Hollington has created 9 full-page colour illustrations, a frontispiece and 25 vignette tailpieces

Silver foiled book edges

Printed in four colours throughout, with a bespoke display font inspired by the artist's cover typography

About the Illustrator

Sophy Hollington

Sophy Hollington (b. 1989, London, UK) is a British artist and illustrator living in rural East Sussex whose main body of work is created using the lengthy relief printmaking process of linocutting. She weaves arcane and folkloric forms into intricate symbolically rich compositions which toe the line between feeling like archaic objects and modernist, futuristic visions. Sophy has collaborated with clients such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Celine, Hermes, A24, Nike, Penguin and McSweeney's. She is also the creator of Autonomic Tarot, published by Rough Trade Books in 2018.

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About the Illustrator

Sophy Hollington

Sophy Hollington (b. 1989, London, UK) is a British artist and illustrator living in rural East Sussex whose main body of work is created using the lengthy relief printmaking process of linocutting. She weaves arcane and folkloric forms into intricate symbolically rich compositions which toe the line between feeling like archaic objects and modernist, futuristic visions. Sophy has collaborated with clients such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Celine, Hermes, A24, Nike, Penguin and McSweeney's. She is also the creator of Autonomic Tarot, published by Rough Trade Books in 2018.

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About the Illustrator

Sophy Hollington

Sophy Hollington (b. 1989, London, UK) is a British artist and illustrator living in rural East Sussex whose main body of work is created using the lengthy relief printmaking process of linocutting. She weaves arcane and folkloric forms into intricate symbolically rich compositions which toe the line between feeling like archaic objects and modernist, futuristic visions. Sophy has collaborated with clients such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Celine, Hermes, A24, Nike, Penguin and McSweeney's. She is also the creator of Autonomic Tarot, published by Rough Trade Books in 2018.

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About the Illustrator

Sophy Hollington

Sophy Hollington (b. 1989, London, UK) is a British artist and illustrator living in rural East Sussex whose main body of work is created using the lengthy relief printmaking process of linocutting. She weaves arcane and folkloric forms into intricate symbolically rich compositions which toe the line between feeling like archaic objects and modernist, futuristic visions. Sophy has collaborated with clients such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Celine, Hermes, A24, Nike, Penguin and McSweeney's. She is also the creator of Autonomic Tarot, published by Rough Trade Books in 2018.

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About the Illustrator

Sophy Hollington

Sophy Hollington (b. 1989, London, UK) is a British artist and illustrator living in rural East Sussex whose main body of work is created using the lengthy relief printmaking process of linocutting. She weaves arcane and folkloric forms into intricate symbolically rich compositions which toe the line between feeling like archaic objects and modernist, futuristic visions. Sophy has collaborated with clients such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Celine, Hermes, A24, Nike, Penguin and McSweeney's. She is also the creator of Autonomic Tarot, published by Rough Trade Books in 2018.

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The Brothers Grimm

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Carl Grimm (1786-1859) were born in Hanau, Hesse-Kassel, Holy Roman Empire (present-day Germany). After completing school, they joined the University of Marburg where they studied law. They also grew interested in folk poetry, philology, history and began studying medieval German literature. In 1812, they published the first volume of their classic collection, with 86 folk tales, titled Kinder- und Hausmärchen (known as Children's and Household Tales in English). Unlike the romantic, poetical fairy tales, these tales were as beautiful as they were violent and frightening, presenting life as it was. This volume was criticised as it was considered unsuitable for children. The second edition of Children's and Household Tales, commonly known as Grimms' Fairy Tales, had a total of 170 tales published in three volumes. In every successive edition, which was elaborately illustrated, stories were revised, added, and subtracted. The seventh edition published in 1850 had a total of 211 tales.

Erin Morgenstern

Erin Morgenstern is a writer and artist whose debut, The Night Circus (2011, Folio 2025), won the Locus Award for Best First Novel as well as an Alex Award from the American Library Association, and was translated into more than a dozen foreign languages; it was named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best fantasy books of all time. Morgenstern is the author most recently of The Starless Sea (2019). She was raised in Massachusetts and studied theatre at Smith College; she now lives in the Berkshires.​

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Jack Zipes

Jack Zipes is a preeminent fairy-tale scholar who has written, translated and edited dozens of books, including The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm and Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales. His most recent book is: Once Upon a Time There Was Truth, or Why We Need Fairy Tales. At present, he is professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota.

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