1863 Grimm’s Fairy Tales Gammer Grethel Rumpelstiltskin Cruikshank Tom Thumb Art

1863 Grimm’s Fairy Tales Gammer Grethel Rumpelstiltskin Cruikshank Tom Thumb Art

A rare and very early printing of the famed German tales, ‘Grimm’s Fairy Tales’. Translated and published by Edgar Taylor, ‘Gammer Grethel’ features some of the most well-known tales including:

• Tom Thumb
• Cinderella (or Ashputtel)
• Snow White (or Snow-Drop)
• The Frog Prince
• Hansel and Grethel
• The Golden Goose
• Rumpelstiltskin

This 1863 English edition is notable for containing the illustrations of Ludwig Grimm and the famed illustrator George Cruikshank.

Item number: #27634

Price: $750

GRIMM, Jacob & Wilhelm

German fairy tales and popular stories as told by Gammer Grethel

London: H.G. Bohn, 1863.

Details:

• Collation: complete with all pages
  • xii, 306
• Provenance: Bookplate – James Bryant Conant
  • James Bryant Conant (1893–1978) was an American chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany. During World War I, he served in the U.S. Army, where he worked on the development of poison gases, especially Lewisite. Conant was appointed to the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) in 1940, becoming its chairman in 1941. In this capacity, he oversaw vital wartime research projects, including the development of synthetic rubber and the Manhattan Project. He was among the dignitaries present at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range for the Trinity nuclear test, the first detonation of an atomic bomb, and was part of the Interim Committee that advised President Harry S. Truman to use atomic bombs on Japan.
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~7in X 4.75in (18cm x 11.5cm)

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