Grimm's Fairy Tales
London / New York: Ernest Nister / E. P. Dutton & Co., 1898 (n.d.).
Hardcover.
With ten beautiful full-page chromolithographic plates by Ada Dennis and numerous full-page black and white illustrations and text vignettes by Evelyn Stuart Hardy and others. Translated by L. L. Weedon.
Thirty-two stories from brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, including Snow White, Rapunzel, and my own favorite Doctor Knowall in which a peasant is advised on how to better himself by becoming a doctor - "First buy an ABC book, the kind which has a crowing cock upon the front page; secondly sell your oxen and cart, and with the money buy good clothes and whatever else a doctor requires; thirdly, have a sign painted with the words, 'I am Doctor Knowall,' and hang it up above your door."
Item #9018297-1/8 x 9-1/4", gilt, silver, green and black decoration to gray cloth over thick beveled boards, red edges to text block, ten full-page color lithographic plates with captions, fourteen full-page black & white illustrations with captions, black & white illustrations throughout text.
Front endpaper hinge cracked, previous owner's bookplate first paste-down endpaper, only mild edge-wear to cloth, an extremely well-preserved copy with bright and colorful illustrations, very good indeed.
Price: $250.00