German Popular Stories Translated from the kinder und hans Marchen, Collected by M.M. Grimm, From Oral Tradition. London: J. Robins, 1834.
AN EARLY REPRINT OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES, A VERY RARE PRINTING OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST OBTAINABLE EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE GREATEST KNOWN FAIRY TALES INCLUDING SNOW WHITE, HANSEL AND GRETEL, THE GOLDEN GOOSE, RUMPELSTILTSKIN, ETC!
With distinguished provenance (below)
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This is the first volume of the original two which contains the following fairy tales: Hans in Luck, The Travelling Musicians, The Golden Bird, The Fisherman and His Wife, The Tom-Tit and the Bear, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Rose-Bud, Tom Thumb, The Grateful Beasts, Jorinda and Jorindel, The Waggish Museum, The Queen Bee, The Dog and the Sparrow, Frederick and Catherine, The Three Lucky Ones, King Grisly-Beard, The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet, Snow-Drop [Snow White], The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Turnip, Old Sultan, The Lady and the Lion, The Jew in the Bush, The King of the Golden Mountain, The Golden Goose, Mrs Fox, Hansel and Grettel, The Giant with the Three Golden Hairs, The Frog-Prince, Rumpel-Stilts-Kin.
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Provenance:
Bookplate of Albert Cohn, the famous bibliographer of George Cruikshank's illustrations, many of which are in this book and considered some of Cruikshank's finest ever produced.
Ownership inscription of Edmund Langton dated October 1843.
Pencil ownership inscription from A Jandek, undated but c. mid 20th century.
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Size: 111 x 172 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[xii, 240pp]
Original publisher's cloth binding, rubbed with some discolouration. Backstrip a little fragile and starting to come loose from spine backing paper but could easily be reglued. Some loss at extremities of backstrip as typical. Binding slightly cocked but without shelf lean. Bookplate to front pastedown and ink ownership inscription to verso blank. Text block uniformly toned as typical but generally clean with illustrated plates more heavily toned as typical. A few spots of foxing and browning but generally internally good.
[OCLC 6560314; Reid 4801; Douglas 53; Cohn 355].
