BROTHERS GRIMM GRIMMS FAIRY TALES ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR
Brothers Grimm
Grimms' Fairy Tales (Full Colour)
Collector’s Library in Colour
Number of pages: 392 Page dimensions: 150 x 93mm
Grimms' Household Tales are the most famous and enchanting collection of fairytales ever written down and published. For the past two centuries, these delightful stories, gathered together by two of Germany’s leading academics, have entertained and frightened children and adults alike. The lives of Tom Thumb, Cinderella, Rumplestiltskin and the Frog Prince form part of our common heritage: they stimulate the imagination and the heart, and linger at the back of our minds for a lifetime. They are funny, disturbing, wise and compassionate. They speak of joy and terror, happiness and revenge, love and violence.
Arthur Rackham’s masterly illustrations have all been hand-coloured by Barbara Frith, one of Britain’s leading colourists.
392pp, 150 x 93 mm, text on 120gm woodfree paper, section sewn hardback with real
cloth binding and all edges gilt, printed endpapers, satin ribbon marker, head and tailbands,
illustrated matt laminated jacket.
The Collector’s Library restores traditional visual and tactile pleasures to the joy of reading.
Each book is designed to appeal to the book-lover; in every case the type is re-set, illustrations, where appropriate, are selected from sources as close to the period of the book as possible, and the books are printed on high-quality paper, section-sewn and bound in real cloth. Each book has endpapers, a satin ribbon marker, head and tailbands and gilt edges. They represent the marriage of great literature to high aesthetic and craft standards, using the technology of the 21st century to produce something classic and at the same time unmistakeably modern.
Their handy size means that they can be slipped into the pocket, handbag or briefcase, and their robust manufacture makes them ideal travelling companions as well as comfortable bedside reads at very affordable prices.
‘I cannot imagine a more heavenly present; they are so beautifully produced and illustrated.’
Jilly Cooper, novelist
‘It is delicious to see gilt edges again. ... They are far more pocket-sized than any paperback.’
Joanna Trollope, novelist
