FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM
TRANSLATED BY MRS. EDGAR LUCAS
ILLUSTRATED
BY ARTHUR RACKHAM
*** RARE ANTIQUE BOOK ~ EARLY RACKHAM ILLUSTRATIONS ~ HANDSOME DECORATED BINDING ~ CLASSIC ~ FAIRIES, GOBLINS, ELVES, FOREST FANTASY ***
Publisher:
London: Constable and Company Ltd., no date, circa 1900.
Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, Somerset.
• measures about 7.75'' x 6''
• handsome original publisher's decorative orange cloth binding
• ornate embossed gilt to spine and brown lettering to front
• glossy color frontispiece and title page
• illustrated with about 100 monochrome part-page and full-page pictures
Rare original 1900 Arthur Rackham-illustrated Grimm's Fairy Tales, which prompted the issue of Rackham's 1909 deluxe signed edition with modified and colored illustrations based on these original drawings. A low number (around 150) of this particular edition were printed for Freemantle in 1900 before production ceased and changed hands to Constable (this edition), which was printed in a similarly small quantity. This book appears to be the First Constable edition, though it bears no edition or printing statement.
