The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
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Overview:
- Title: The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
- Author: Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
- Year: 1909
- Publisher: Constable & Co. Ltd.
- Price: 42/-
- Pages: xv+325
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
- Notes:
- Edition de Luxe
- Limited edition of 750 numbered and signed copies. Colored frontispiece + 39 mounted color plates and numerous illustrations.
- Data from WorldCat and from Christie's Auction House.
- Publication date (inferred) and price from publisher "Announcements" and later lists, 1909-10-09 to -11-06. The publisher consistently states: "With 40 full-page plates in colour and 70 drawings in the text." "4to cloth. 15s. net. Edition de Luxe, limited to 750 copies, 42s. net."
- Library of Congress (LCCN, below) reports a copy of the limited edition as 40 mounted plates including frontispiece; "Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress." "Title in red and black within ornamental border." Size 30 cm.