Grimm's Little Brother and Little Sister - With Original Drawing by RACKHAM, Arthur

Grimm's Little Brother and Little Sister - With Original Drawing

and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm

RACKHAM, Arthur / GRIMM Brothers

GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES INSCRIBED WITH ORIGINAL DRAWING

RACKHAM, Arthur Grimm's Little Brother and Little Sister - With Original Drawing and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm

Constable, 1917.

First edition thus. 4to. Green cloth with gilt lettering and vignettes to upper cover and spine. Top edge green. Charming sketch on the half titles of a little man and woman, and the inscription "To Robert + Awdry / with best wishes / from Edyth + Arthur Rackham / Christmas 1917". Endpapers have a purple line drawing of a fairy queen and her elfin helpers. Twelve colour plates, mounted onto brown art paper, each with a printed caption below. There are also many black and white drawings, some full page. A very good copy, spotting to the page edges and rear endpapers, corners lightly bumped.

A charming version of Grimm's fairy tales accompanied by Rackham's illustrations. Fairy tales include: Snow-white and Rose Red; Thumbling's Travels etc.

PROVENANCE: Christmas gift to Robert and Awdry Starkie from Arthur and Edyth Rackham. Arthur Rackham married Edyth Starkie in 1903 and each Christmas Arthur sent his latest book to her family.

Stock ID: 32080

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