Jun 17, 2015 - Sale 2388

Sale 2388 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) GRIMM, JAKOB and WILHELM. German Popular Stories. Translated from the Kinder und Haus Marchen. Together, 2 volumes. Half-titles. Illustrated with 2 engraved titles, and 20 etched plates by George Cruikshank, those in volume 1 printed in brown. 12mo, later full burgundy crushed morocco, French fillet covers, spines tooled in gilt in compartments, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, by Bumpus; occasional offsetting to facing text from plates, Herbert Standen bookplates on front pastedowns. London: C. Baldwyn, 1823; James Robins, 1826
Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

first edition in english, first state of the title-page in volume 1 without the umlaut over the "a" in "Marchen"; printed list of plates on page 218 (variant title to the tale of The Travelling Musicians with the addition of the words "breaking through the Window"); and the final note (p. 240) refers to page vii of the preface. Without the publisher's advertisements called for at the end of Volume I and the beginning and end of Volume II, but with the 2 page "Advertisement" after prelims in Volume II. Cohn 369.