[Grimm, Jakob & Wilhelm]

German Popular Stories With Illustrations after the Original Designs of George Cruikshank. Edited by Edgar Taylor. With Introduction by John Ruskin, M.A. London: John Camden Hotten, [1868]



8vo (7 1/2 x 5 5/8 in.; 190 x 142 mm). Half-title, title vignette, 21 plates.

Tear in upper joint
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A whimsical Cosway binding with two large oval miniatures, one in each cover, of scenes from the stories painted on ivory by C. B. Currie. Olive crushed morocco, double-fillet border with a parallel dotted line and gilt-stamped leaf tools at four corners, a frame of the same leaf tools and gold dots surround the miniatures, top edge gilt, gilt-tooled turn-ins, olive watered-silk doublures and endleaves, by Rivière & Son, stamp-signed in gilt "Miniatures by C.B. Currie," in a green cloth drop-box.