Household Stories from the Collection of the Bros. Grimm

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Front cover and spine

Name/Title

Household Stories from the Collection of the Bros. Grimm

Entry/Object ID

2017.11.8

Description

269 p. : ill. Note: 2 pages advertisements for the Cranford Series. Full page black and white illustrations, plus head and tailpieces.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Fairy tales, 1890s

Dimensions

Height

7-1/2 in

Book Details

Author

Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Lucy Crane

Illustrator

Walter Crane

Publisher

Macmillan & Company

Place Published

City

London

Country

England

Date Published

1882

Date Printed

1893

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Cranford Series

Binding Designer

Walter Crane

Binding Notes

Bound in dark green cloth with elaborate stamping to cover and spine, in a signed binding by Walter Crane featuring the 'Crane Edition' legend. Coated green endpapers.

Notes

First edition printed 1882. Reprinted 1893- title page states 1893. Former owner's bookplate to front free end paper (ffep), two owner's names and dates to blank page preceding frontis: Grace M. Pugh 1968, L. E. Thompson 1939