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Household Stories from the Collection of the Bros. Grimm

2017.11.8

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Fairy tales1890s

7-1/2 in

Wilhelm GrimmJacob GrimmLucy Crane

Walter Crane

The Cranford Series

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

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