The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl (With Wilhelm Carl Grimm.) (Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.)

London: Folio Society 2006. (4to in slipcase) 319pp. Near fine. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustrations to the cover and spine in near fine blue slipcase. Top edge stained dark blue, illustrated endpapers, frontispiece, illustrated title page, black and white and color illustrations. The bottoms of the spine and corners are very lightly edgeworn and the slipcase has a small bump and residue where a price sticker was removed. "Some years ago a selection of Grimm's Fairy Tales with one hundred illustrations of mine in black and white was published - in 1900, by Messrs Freemantle and Co., and afterward by Messrs Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd. At intervals since then I have been at work on the original drawings, partially or entirely re-drawing some of them in colour" - from the Prefatory Note by the Artist Arthur Rackham, 1909. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas. (Folklore, Fairy Tales, Folklore).