Other editions of book Grimms' Fairy Tales

For almost two centuries, the stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have been part of the way children - and adults - learn about the vagaries of the real world. A timeless collection of wit and wisdom, the collective wisdom of hundreds of years of the transmission of ideas through stories meant to teach children the valuable lessons of life.

Children's and Household Tales is a collection of German fairy tales first published in 1812 by the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm. The collection is commonly known in the Anglosphere as Grimm's Fairy Tales .The first volume of the first edition was published in 1812, containing 86 stories; the second volume of 70 stories followed in 1815. For the second edition, two volumes were issued in 1819 and a third in 1822, totalling 170 tales. The third edition appeared in 1837; fourth edition, 1840; fifth edition, 1843; sixth edition, 1850; seventh edition, 1857. Stories were added, and also subtracted, from one edition to the next, until the seventh held 211 tales. All editions were extensively illustrated, first by Philipp Grot Johann and, after his death in 1892, by German illustrator Robert Leinweber.The first volumes were much criticized because, although they were called "Children's Tales", they were not regarded as suitable for children, both for the scholarly information included and the subject matter. Many changes through the editions – such as turning the wicked mother of the first edition in Snow White and Hansel and Gretel (shown in original Grimm stories as Hänsel and Grethel) to a stepmother, were probably made with an eye to such suitability. They removed sexual references—such as Rapunzel's innocently asking why her dress was getting tight around her belly, and thus naïvely revealing her pregnancy and the prince's visits to her stepmother—but, in many respects, violence, particularly when punishing villains, was increased.In 1825 the Brothers published their Kleine Ausgabe or "small edition", a selection of 50 tales designed for child readers. This children's version went through ten editions between 1825 and 1858.

A superb edition of 55 favourite tales collected by The Brothers Grimm Favourites include Hansel and Grettel, Elves and the Shoemaker, Golden Goose, Rumpelstiltskin, Sleeping Beauty, Red Riding Hood and many more. Grimm Stories remain as alluring and mysterious where the magic is very real and where the youngest son always triumphs and virtue is always rewarded This Edition superbly illustrated with Noel Pocock's colour plates will be a book to treasure and keep for a lifetime. The Dwarfs he painted seem to spring out of the ancient rocky landscape, half human and half magical

A certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples. These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone. The king became very angry at this, and ordered the gardener to keep watch all night under the tree. The gardener set his eldest son to watch; but about twelve o'clock he fell asleep, and in the morning another of the apples was missing. Then the second son was ordered to watch; and at midnight he too fell asleep, and in the morning another apple was gone. Then the third son offered to keep watch; but the gardener at first would not let him, for fear some harm should come to him: however, at last he consented, and the young man laid himself under the tree to watch. As the clock struck twelve he heard a rustling noise in the air, and a bird came flying that was of pure gold; and as it was snapping at one of the apples with its beak, the gardener's son jumped up and shot an arrow at it. But the arrow did the bird no harm; only it dropped a golden feather from its tail, and then flew away. The golden feather was brought to the king in the morning, and all the council was called together. Everyone agreed that it was worth more than all the wealth of the kingdom: but the king said, 'One feather is of no use to me, I must have the whole bird.'

Classics Series Cl168. Contains: Frog-Prince, Hansel and Gretel, Fisherman & his Wife, Six Servants, Goblin Cobblers, Brave LIttle Tailor, King Throstle-Beard, Mother HOlle, Bottled Spirit, The Spindle, Shuttle & the Needle, Magic Herbs, Rumpelstiltskin, Blue Light, One-Eye, Two Eyes, and Three Eyes, The shoes that Were DAnced into Holes, The Drummer, Golden Goose, Boy who leaned to Shudder, Wise Griffon, Goose Girl at the Well & The 3 Spinning Women.