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Grimm. Gammer Grethel, or German Fairy Tales

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[translated by Edgar Taylor], wood-engraved frontispiece, title vignette and 29 illustrations (of 31), including two repeated tailpieces after George Cruikshank and Ludwig Grimm, lacking the pictorial sub-titles to Evening the Third and Evening the Tenth, John Green, 1839; German Fairy Tales and Popular Stories, as told by Gammer Grethel, translated by Edgar Taylor, wood-engraved frontispiece and 31 illustrations including two repeated tailpieces after George Cruikshank and Ludwig Grimm, the story of "Cat-Skin" removed, Joseph Cundall, 1846, contemporary half morocco, 8vo(2)

***The first book is the first printing of the second English collection of the Grimm's Fairy Tales. The second is a reissue of the same sheets with a new title-page..

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