Apr 20, 2006 - Sale 2075

Sale 2075 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 1,725
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
GRIMM, JACOB and WILHELM. German Popular Stories, translated from the Kinder und Haus-Märchen. 22 etched plates by George Cruikshank including engraved titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, rebound in burgundy morocco with elaborate gilt designs on covers and spine compartments, joints rubbed with some loss of color, but firm; gilt turn-ins with green moiré silk doublures and endleaves, red ribbon markers; contain half-titles but lack advertisements. London: Baldwyn, 1823; James Robins, 1826

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Second edition of the first translation of the Grimm's fairy tales into another language, and first illustrated edition. With no plate list and blank verso of page 218 in Volume 1, and the words "Or the Waits of Bremen" added to the title of "The Travelling Musicians" in Volume 2. "Cruikshank's most original work"--Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 112. Cohn 369.