The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl and Wilhelm Carl (authors), and Arthur Rackham (illustrator)

(London: The Folio Society, 2002). 4to; gilt pictorial blue cloth; tinted top edge; blue slipcase; pictorial endpapers; pp. xvi + 325; colour plates; line drawings. Partial discolouration to backstrip, else fine. "Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm and his brother Wilhelm Carl published their first volume of the Kinder- und Hausmärchen in Christmas 1812. The second volume followed in 1814; the third in 1822. The first English edition, entitled German Popular Stories, appeared in 1823, translated by Edgar Taylor and illustrated by George Cruikshank. The text of this edition is taken from the revised edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales translated by Mrs Edgar Lucas, illustrated by Arthur Rackham and published by Constable & Co. Ltd in 1909." .