Household Stories from the Collection of the Bros. Grimm
Book
269 p. : ill.
Note: 2 pages advertisements for the Cranford Series. Full page black and white illustrations, plus head and tailpieces.
2017.11.8
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Fairy tales1890s
7-1/2 in
Wilhelm GrimmJacob GrimmLucy Crane
Walter Crane
Macmillan & Company
London
England
1882
1893
Publisher's Binding- Cranford Series
Walter Crane
Bound in dark green cloth with elaborate stamping to cover and spine, in a signed binding by Walter Crane featuring the 'Crane Edition' legend. Coated green endpapers.
First edition printed 1882. Reprinted 1893- title page states 1893. Former owner's bookplate to front free end paper (ffep), two owner's names and dates to blank page preceding frontis: Grace M. Pugh 1968, L. E. Thompson 1939