Description
Little Brother, Little Sister and other tales By Grimm Brothers
Limited Edition of 525 copies of which this is No. 116 -
Very hard to find signed Edition by Arthur Rackham.
Author: Grimm Bros
Illustrator: Arthur Rackham
Edition: 1st Edition
Format/binding:Decorative Cloth
Book condition: poor / Fair
Jacket condition: No Jacket
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Constable & Co. Ltd
Place: London
Date published: 1917
Book Description
London : Constable & Co. Ltd, 1917 A poor / fair copy of the first illustrated signed edition illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With 11 tipped in colour plates there should be 13 and numerous black and white illustrations and designs. This work was designed to complement an earlier collection of Grimm's tales illustrated by Rackham, and contains 40 stories including Snow White and Rose Red, and The Twelve Brothers.
Hand written note inside front cover dated 1918
A quote from Frances Anne (Fanny) Kemble
Book condition
externally
In the original green decorative cloth binding with gilt decoration and titles to the front board and spine.. There is some darkening; some scuffing to the edge of the front board and a water stain . Some scuff marks to the back board and water stain . The spine has had better days and is loose . This book has rough cut pages , end and bottom
Internally. Text is clean, Illustrations are bright. the book is clean and bright with only the odd bit of foxing spots Mainly round the cut edge . Vertical and bottom page edges are rough-cut. The cut pages have very rough edge, where the book was roughly opened when made .Some browning to endpapers, some of the colour plates have small creases to the inner bottom corner - presumably where the plate was caught when the book was closed. and signs of book been read some of the plates are with loose browned tissue guards although several of these guards are creased and/or otherwise damaged. some of the tissue guards are missing .
missing plates
page two " She took of her golden garter and put it round the roebucks neck " front piece
page 206 " she begged quite prettily to be allowed to spend the night there "
Book Details Finnish
Hand written note inside front cover
A quote from Frances Anne (Fanny) Kemble
Frances Anne (Fanny) Kemble was born on November 27, 1809 in London, England. From one of England's most prominent family of actors, she took to the stage herself to save her family from financial ruin. Though a brilliant actress, the stage was not the true love of Fanny Kemble -- her first love was for literature and writing. Throughout her life she would be a prolific and accomplished writer of plays, journals, poetry, letters, and memoirs.
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