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Grimm Brothers
Estimate
300 - 500 GBP
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Description
- Grimm Brothers
- German Popular Stories. Translated from the Kinder und Haus Märchen collected by M.M. Grimm from Oral Tradition. London: J. Robins and Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1834
- Paper
12mo (180 x 107mm.), 2 volumes, EARLY REISSUE, with 20 plates and engraved titles by George Cruikshank, original maroon cloth, maroon collector's chemise and slipcase, spines faded and covers slightly soiled, plates browned, some light spotting and browning to some pages (2)
Literature
see Cohn 369
Catalogue Note
"If you ever happen to meet with the two volumes of Grimm's German Stories, which were illustrated by him [Cruikshank] long ago, pounce on them instantly; the etchings in them are the finest things next to Rembrandt's, that, as far as I know, have been done since etching was invented. You cannot look at them too much, nor copy them too often." John Ruskin in Elements of Drawing (1857).