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Author/Editor | Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Karl (German, 1785 – 1863), Grimm, Wilhelm Carl (German, 1786 – 1859) |
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Printer | Hart, Horace Henry (British, 1840 – 1916), Horace Hart (Oxford) |
Publisher | Frowde, Henry (British, 1841 – 1927), Oxford University Press |
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Popular stories collected by the brothers Grimm / A reprint of the first English edition. — London: Henry Frowde, 1905.
Title: OXFORD EDITION | POPULAR STORIES | COLLECTED BY | THE BROTHERS GRIMM | A REPRINT OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION | WITH TWENTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS | BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK | {publisher’s device} | HENRY FROWDE | LONDON, EDINBURGH, GLASGOW | NEW YORK AND TORONTO | 1905 ||
Pagination: [i, ii] – frontis., [iii-iv]– t.p. / imprint. [v] – preface, vi-xvii [xviii blank], [2] [1] 2-403 [404], plates included in pagination, pp. 379-403 – notes.
Collation: a8 b2 B-Z8 Aa-Cc8 Dd2.
Binding:1 9 x 13 cm, olive green cloth blind-stamped in art nouveau style and lettered in gilt to cover and spine: GRIMMS’ POPULAR STORIES. Aubergine pencil inscription to front pastedown: C. Grant Robertson | All Souls | 1905:
Provenance: Sir Charles Grant Robertson CVO (British, 1869 – 1948) who was a British academic historian, a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Vice-chancellor of the University of Birmingham.