Sixty Fairy tales of The Brothers Grimm Illustrated by Aurthur Rackham Hardcover

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Sixty Fairy tales of The Brothers Grimm Illustrated by Aurthur Rackham Hardcover:
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Sixty Fairy tales of The Brothers Grimm Illustrated by Aurthur Rackham Hardcover is a selection of 60 tales by Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm K. Grimm. This rare1979 edition features the artwork of the late great Arthur Rackham whosillustrations literally make this edition haunting and a favorite of collectors.Over 100 separateillustrations with 40 full color plates!
Condition:Actual First Edition Weathervane Books Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The bookitself is LIKE NEW! The binding is tight and all 336 pages within are brightwhite with no writing, underlining, high-lighting, rips, tears, bends, or folds;and a near perfect cover. The dust jacket is in excellent condition with norips, folds or tears. You will be happy with this one! Buy with confidence froma seller who takes the time to show you the details and not use just stockphotos. Please check out all my pictures and email with any questions! Thanksfor looking!About the Illustrator, Arthur Rackham:Arthur Rackham is widely regarded as one of the leading illustrators from the\'Golden Age\' of British book illustration which roughly encompassed the yearsfrom 1890 until the end of the First World War. During that period, there was astrong market for high quality illustrated books which typically were given asChristmas gifts. Many of Rackham\'s books were produced in a de luxe limitededition, often vellum bound and usually signed, as well as a smaller, lessornately bound quarto \'trade\' edition. This was sometimes followed by a moremodestly presented octavo edition in subsequent years for particularly popularbooks. The onset of the war in 1914 curtailed the market for such quality books,and the public\'s taste for fantasy and fairies also declined in the 1920s.
Arthur Rackham\'s works have become very popular since his death, both in NorthAmerica and Britain. His images have been widely used by the greeting cardindustry and many of his books are still in print or have been recentlyavailable in both paperback and hardback editions. His original drawings andpaintings are keenly sought at the major international art sale houses.
About the Grimm Fairy Tales:The influence of these books was widespread. W. H. Auden praised the collectionduring World War II as one of the founding works of Western culture. The talesthemselves have been put to many uses. Hitler praised them as folkish talesshowing children with sound racial instincts seeking racially pure marriagepartners, and so strongly that the Allied forces warned against them; forinstance, Cinderella with the heroine as racially pure, the stepmother as analien, and the prince with an unspoiled instinct being able to distinguish.Writers who have written about the Holocaust have combined the tales with theirmemoirs, as Jane Yolen in her Briar Rose.
The work of the Brothers Grimm influenced other collectors, both inspiring themto collect tales and leading them to similarly believe, in a spirit of romanticnationalism, that the fairy tales of a country were particularly representativeof it, to the neglect of cross-cultural influence. Among those influenced werethe Russian Alexander Afanasyev, the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen andJørgen Moe, the English Joseph Jacobs, and Jeremiah Curtin, an American whocollected Irish tales. There was not always a pleased reaction to theircollection. Joseph Jacobs was in part inspired by his complaint that Englishchildren did not read English fairy tales; in his own words, \"What Perraultbegan, the Grimms completed\".
Three individual works of Wilhelm Grimm include Altdänische Heldenlieder,Balladen und Märchen (\'Old Danish Heroic Songs, Ballads, and Folktales\') in1811, Über deutsche Runen (\'On German Runes\') in 1821, and Die deutscheHeldensage (\'The German Heroic Saga\') in 1829.
The Grimm anthology has been a source of inspiration for artists and composers.Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane and Rie Cramer are among the artists who havecreated illustrations based on the stories.