POPULAR STORIES COLLECTED BY THE BROTHERS GRIMM 1905 ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK

[GRIMM, (brothers) JACOB & WILHELM]. Popular Stories. London: Henry Frowde, 1905.

Hardcover. A reprint of the first English edition. Leather-bound. Octavo (195 x 130 mm.), pp. [xvii], 403. English text. With twenty-two illustrations by George Cruikshank. Exquisite contemporary quarter vellum, smooth spine gilt with leather title plates, top edge gilt. Streatham College prize plate to front pastedown, their armorial crest gilt to upper cover. Initial and terminal blanks present. Illustrated frontispiece, further illustrations throughout. Printed by Horace Hart, Oxford. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, edges sharp, the covers very clean, slight wear to title-plate. Contents very clean indeed. Scarce thus.