"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke
Grimm's Fairy Tales.
London: William Heinemann, no date [1925]. [Children's Illustrated] RACKHAM-ILLUSTRATED EDITION, Second Thus. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.xvi; 326 [2]. With 40 chromolithographic plates and 55 in-text wood engravings. Publisher's pink cloth with gilt title to spine and upper board. Top edge pink. Minor spotting to edges and first and final few leaves, otherwise internally clean. Spine and board extremities sunned and rubbed. Very good. First published in this quarto format in 1909, preceded by the smaller version of 1900. Item #76478
Price: £250.00
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