Other editions of book Grimm's Fairy Tales

The Grimm Brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. Together with the well-known tales of "Rapunzel", "The Goose-Girl", "Sleeping Beauty", "Hansel and Gretel" and "Snow White", there are the darker tales such as "Death's Messengers" which deserve to be better known, and which will appeal not only to all who are interested in the history of folklore, but also to all those who simply love good storytelling. The two brothers wished to preserve their German folklore in a collection of tales that they believed had been handed down for generations. In the beginning they had just 86 stories about the difficult life of European peasantry, but they ended up with over 200 tales. As time passed, the Grimm Brothers found that their collection of fairy tales, with all of its royalty, magical creatures, and brave adventures, entranced those who read them.

This Calla Edition of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm is drawn from the mammoth collection first published in 1909 and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. His 40 full-color plates, plus innumerable black-and-white spot elements, get sensitive treatment in a design that retains the best features of the original, including the ornate gilt stamping on the case.

The Brothers Grimm (German: Die Brüder Grimm or Die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob Grimm (January 4, 1785 – September 20, 1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (February 24, 1786 – December 16, 1859), were German academics, linguists and cultural researchers who collected the old folk tales and published several collections of folk- and fairy tales, called Grimm's Fairy Tales, which subsequently became very popular.[1] Jacob also carried out academic work in philology, related to how the sounds in words shift over time (Grimm's law), he was also a lawyer, his legal work, German Legal Antiquities (Deutsche Rechtsaltertümer) in 1828, made him a valuable testimony about the origin and meaning of many legal historical idioms and symbolism.[2] They can be counted along with Karl Lachmann and Georg Friedrich Benecke as founding fathers of Germanic philology and German studies. Both brothers began to compile the first German dictionary. Jacob, who was able to complete the letters A, B, C and E, died on September 20, 1863 before completing the processing of the article with the letter F and "functional".269 Pages Original-Scan, NO GOOGLE-SCAN