Grimm's Fairy Tales

Synopsis

this Magical Hardcover Edition Is Drawn From The Mammoth Collection First Published In 1909 And Illustrated By Arthur Rackham. forty Full-color Plates, Plus Innumerable Black-and-white Spot Elements, Retains The Best Features Of The Original.

publishers Weekly

old-fashioned, Often Broken Typeface And Arthur Rackham's Gloriously Reproduced Original Artwork Accompany 22 Stories In A New Edition Of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Originally Published In 1909. A Sepia-toned Illustration For Red Riding Hood Shows The Cloaked Girl Meeting The Bristly Wolf, Dwarfed By Endlessly Tall, Bare Trees. A Caption In The Bremen Town Musicians Recalls The Bygone Era: They Came Upon A Cat, Sitting In The Road, With A Face As Long As A Wet Week. ( Sept.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.