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German Fairy Tales and Popular Stories as Told by Gammer Grethel

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Author(s):Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s):George Cruikshank
Ludwig Grimm
Translator(s):David Jardine
Edgar Taylor
Publisher(s): Joseph Cundall
Year Published: 1846
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Fairy Tales - Classic
Age Range: Ages 5-7: Early Reader Books
Pages: 350
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 1008533667

Description

This is a retitled version of the third edition of the Edgar Taylor translation of Grimm. It dispensed with the academic apparatus and included additional illustrations by Ludwig Grimm. The image above is from a later printing. Read online at Hathitrust.

Other Editions

German Popular Stories Translated from the Kinder und Haus Märchen Volume I (1823)

This is the first volume of Grimms’ tales to be translated into English. The title page above is from the third edition. The scan is from a facsimile published in 1904 which is actually from the second issue as there are dots over the "ä" in Märchen. Read online at Hathitrust.

Publisher: C. Baldwyn
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Gammer Grethel or German Fairy Tales and Popular Stories (1839)

This was the third edition of the Edgar Taylor translation of Grimm. It dispensed with the academic apparatus and included additional illustrations by Ludwig Grimm.

Publisher: John Green
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Grimm’s Goblins (1876)

This is an omnibus edition of the tales translated by Taylor with all of the Cruikshank illustrations. Read online at archive.org.

Publisher: R. Meek & Co.
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