The Annotated Brothers Grimm: The Bicentennial Edition

Overview:

• Title: The Annotated Brothers Grimm: The Bicentennial Edition
• Author: Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm
• Year: 2012
• ISBN-10: 9781620906156
• Publisher: W. W. Norton / SFBC
• Price: $17.99
• Pages: liii+496
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Type: Collection
• Title Reference: The Annotated Brothers Grimm
• Notes:
  • "Edited with a New Preface and Notes by Maria Tatar" stated on the front cover and title page. "Translations by Maria Tatar" stated on the title page.
  • Authors are credited as "Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm" on the title page.
  • "The Bicentennial Edition" stated on the front cover and title page. This edition has been expanded and updated from the 2004 edition, and has a new copyright of 2012.
  • "Book design by JAM Design" stated on the copyright page.
  • No printed price. Price from SFBC.com.
  • This book club edition is an exclusive softcover edition.
  • "1363021" printed in a white box at the bottom on the back cover.
  • Contains several hundred illustrations, including works by Arthur Rackham, Gustave Dore, George Cruikshank, Kay Nielson, Walter Crane, Maxfield Parrish, Wanda Gag, and others. Many of these are full-page color reproductions.
  • The collection is divided into five parts:
    • Part I: Tales (pages 1 - 390; consisting of 43 stories)
    • Part II: Tales for Adults (pages 391 - 418; consisting of 9 stories)
    • Part III: The Brothers Grimm: Biographical Essay (pages 419 - 430)
    • Part IV: Other Matters (pages 431 - 462; consisting of three prefaces written by Wilhelm Grimm)
    • Part V: The Magic of Fairy Tales (pages 463 - 482; a collection of several dozen extended quotes from various authors on the subject of fairy tales, presumably compiled by the editor)
  • "Jacket design by Chin Yee-Lai" printed on the back cover. It was created from illustrations by Paul Hey, Jessie Willcox Smith, Arthur Rackham, Warwick Goble, A. H. Watson, and L. Leslie Brooke.