[GRIMM, BROTHERS]. The Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1909.
First edition. Cloth-bound. Hardcover. Quarto (260 x 180 x 65 mm.). Pp. xv, 325. Crimson cloth with gilt decorations to spine and front cover - Title on front cover and spine is "Grimm's Fairy Tales". Plain endpapers. Top edge tinted red. 54 black & white illustrations and 40 tipped in colour plates with tissue guards. Printed by T. and A. Constable. Condition: Fair to good. Binding tight, secure and square. Bump to bottom of spine with some tearing to cloth. Spine ends and points a little rubbed. Minor fading and soiling to cloth. Contents excellent and complete. Previous owner details neatly inked to fep. Without dust jacket.
Notes: First edition. Originally published by Freemantle in 1900, Constable purchased the copyright and reissued this sumptuous version with revised, redrawn and recoloured illustrations. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham and translated by Mrs Edgar Lucas. A collection of 60 fairy tales including the much loved The Bremen Town Musicians, The Frog Princess, The Goosegirl, Rapunzel, Hansel and Grethel, Red Riding Hood, Tom Thumb, Rumpelstiltskin, The Wolf and the Seven Kids, The Elves and the Shoemaker, etc.
