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Price: US$355.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Half-bound in leather over what we presume to be the well-worn original marbled green boards, 4-1/4 X 7-1/4 inches (108 X 183 mm.) with original dark green matte endpapers (attachment of the FFE is a tad fragile -- though strings are holding. Book otherwise still firmly bound.) this is the first edition in English (second state) of the folk tales of the Brothers Grimm, and the first job of illustration by the (soon-to-be-renowned) George Cruikshank (1792-1878.) Missing the top inch and bottom 3/4-inch (5 cm.) of the leather spine covering, though gilt title "Popular Stories" remains. Previous owner's name in a period hand to front pastedown "Vulosia" (unless that could be "Valosia") "Davidson of Tulloch," Castle Tulloch having indeed been the seat of Clan Davidson from the 18th Century. There is a second Previous Owner Signature to top of title page, that being the autograph of Henrietta Fergusson -- the first of the lady's twinned "s"es being written in the long form of the era. Whether this is the signature of Henrietta Duncan Fergusson (1782-1850), daughter of Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan of Camperdown, and wife of Sir James Fergusson of Kilkerran, 4th Baronet, we do not know. Second state of this 1823-dated first edition identified by the fact that the previously missing umlaut has been added to the word "Marchen" in the title. Unfortunately, this copy is not complete. Missing the first two pages of "Hans in Luck," that being the first two numbered pages of the book after the Preface (which is numbered i-to-xii.) Also missing the Cruikshank illustrated plate which should lie opposite page 2, illustrating "Hans in Luck." This copy is ALSO lacking the four text pages pp. 179-182, those being the first four pp. (pretty much the whole) of the story "The Golden Goose." And the plate which should sit opposite page 14, illustrating ""The Travelling Musicians, Or The Waits of Bremen," is also absent. This means that -- counting the Frontispiece -- this copy shows nine Cruikshank illustrations, rather than the 11 or 12 usually called for. Text ends on pg. 217, followed by 22 pages of "Notes" running pg. 219 through "The End" on pg. 240. (So, in total, this copy is missing two plates and six numbered text pages.) This edition -- including illustrations -- is now available as a downloadable pdf online, meaning missing text and plates could presumably be supplied in facsimile without too much difficulty, but we price below market and leave that decision to the next owner. Reduced from $790
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$10000.00 + shipping
Description: . GRIMM, Wilhelm. ZAEHNSDORF, [binder]. German Popular Stories. Translated from the Kinder und Haus Marchen, Collected by M.M. Grimm, from Oral Tradition. London: Published by C. Baldwyn, 1823. Full description: GRIMM, [Jacob and Wilhelm]. CRUIKSHANK, George, [illustrator]. German Popular Stories, Translated from the Kinder und Haus Marchen, Collected by M.M. Grimm, from Oral Tradition. London: Published by C. Baldwyn, 1823; James Robins & Co., London, and Joseph Robins Junr. & Co., Dublin, 1826. First English edition, with the second issue title-page for Volume I, with an umlaut over the "a" in "Märchen" in the title. "A few copies of the engraved title were printed off before the umlaut was added in 'Märchen'" Otherwise with the following first issue points: With a list of plates on page 218; the title to the tale of "The Travelling Musicians" on p. 9 has no additional words; in the "Notes" at the end of the volume, the note referring to "Preface, p. vii" comes last; and Baldwyn's advertisement at the end begins "On the First of November was published, Price 5s. No. XII. Completing the Sixth Volume of The Retrospective Review." Two twelvemo volumes (7 3/8 x 4 3/8 inches; 190 x 110 mm). [2], xii, 240, [12, publisher's advertisements]; [2], iv, 256, [1], [1, printer's imprint], [1, ads] [1, blank], [12, publisher's advertisements] pp. Half-titles in each volume. With twenty-two etched plates by George Cruikshank, including two vignette title-pages. The plates in Volume I are printed in brown, and black in Volume II. Bound by F. Bedford in full navy crushed levant morocco. Covers triple-ruled in gilt. Spines tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, board edges ruled in gilt, turn-ins decoratively tooled in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Maroon coated endpapers. Leaves D2 and D3 in volumes I and B10 and page iv in Volume II with small closed tears to fore-edge margins, invisibly repaired and not affecting text. Text is very clean and margins are large. The drab printed pictorial front and back wrappers for Volume I along with the spine are bound in to the end of volume I. The printed paper spine label from volume II is bound in to the end of that volume. Overall an about fine set. "The stories that we know today as Grimm's Fairy Tales were collected from oral tradition by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, philologists and pioneer folklorists. They began to publish the results of their work in 1812, in Germany, under the title Kinder- und Haus-Märchen. The tales first appeared in English in 1823, with the publication of the first volume of German Popular Stories. The translator was Edgar Taylor, and the book's publication was an auspicious event for at least two reasons. It launched an era in which folklore and the fairy tale would stimulate writers to produce an increasingly imaginative literature for children. And German Popular Stories also put before the public the remarkable illustrationsâ"perhaps his best workâ"of George Cruikshank. The illustrations evoke wonderfully the grotesque, awesome, yet matter-of-fact qualities of witch and goblin, of Frog Prince, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, and all the other characters that people the tales. As illustrations to these fairy tales Cruikshank's etchings have never been surpassed" (Morgan Library, Early Children's Books). Cohn 369. Morgan Library, Early Children's Books, 197. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 112. HBS 68858. $10,000.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$18572.52 + shipping
Description: A finely bound, first English edition of the brother's Grimm tales. A very scarce example of this famous stories, here in English for the first time. The First Edition First impression of the famous Brother's Grimm tales. Illustrated by Cruikshank. Illustrated throughout, with etched vignette titles and twenty plates by the eminent 19th century illustrator George Cruikshank. Eleven plates to volume I and nine plates to volume II. Cruikshank started his career as his father's apprentice and assistant. His family were noted artists and caricaturists. This publication is Cruikshank's earliest book illustration. Following the success of this work he illustrated the works of his friend Charles Dickens. The first edition, first issue of both volumes, without umlaut in 'Marchen' to the title page. [Cohn 369] Volume I is dated 1823 and volume II is dated 1826. A finely bound copy of this work. With half-titles. Bound without the advertisements as usual. Translated into English by Edgar Taylor, a British solicitor and author of many legal, historical, literary works and translations. He was the first translator of this work, which was known in German as 'Kinder-Und Hausmarchen'. They were published anonymously, and Taylor wrote to the Grimms that his translations were for 'the amusement of some young friends principally in view'. These translations were seen as being representative of a movement at the turn of the nineteenth century to separate the fantasy elements of fairy tales from cruelty and bawdy, with the addition of Christian moral teachings. This English edition was more popular than the Grimms' own editions of this work, due to the scholarly nature that they adopted. The stories to this work inclunde 'Hans in Luck', 'The Travelling Musicians', 'Snow Drop', 'The Lady and the Lion', 'Rumpelstiltskin' and 'The Golden Goose'. In modern full calf bindings. Externally, in an excellent condition with just a few light marks to boards. Internally, both volumes are firmly bound. Pages are bright. Plate at page 29 to volume II has hand colouring. Imperceptible repair to this plate at the gutter. Occasional offsetting from the plates, particularly heavy to page 143 of volume II. Repair to page 139 (H2) of volume I at the fore-edge, resulting in a small loss to the first word of three lines to H2v. Marks to the fore-edge of 178- 186 of volume I. Otherwise, just the occasional light spots to pages. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom