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Author: Brothers Grimm with 48 color plates by Harry G. Theaker.
Title: GRIMM's FAIRY Tales.
Publisher: London and Melbourne, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, no date (circa 1925). 
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8.5 " X 6.5 ". 
Pages: 344 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good, near fine, full decorated cloth binding (hinges fine - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Good content (bright and tight, light and a small stain in the upper inner corner of first plates - as shown, rare light foxing - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the 48 wonderful color plates by Harry George Theaker.

The book: Rare, beautiful, and attractive edition of those illustrated Grimm's Fairy Tales illustrated by Harry G. Theaker.

The illustrator: Harry George Theaker  (1873-1954) was an Illustrator, painter, designer, decorator for pottery, calligrapher, teacher of modeling, principal of art school. Theaker was also a successful illustrator, particularly of children's books. His first known published works date from about 1911, and most of his illustrations date from the 1920s and 1930s. 

The authors: The Brothers Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Carl Grimm (1786–1859), were Hessian academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together collected and published folklore during the 19th century. They were among the first and best-known collectors of German and European folk tales, and popularized traditional oral tale types such as "Cinderella" ("Aschenputtel"), "The Frog Prince" ("Der Froschkönig"), "The Goose-Girl" ("Die Gänsemagd"), "Hansel and Gretel" ("Hänsel und Gretel"), "Rapunzel", "Little Red Riding Hood" ("Rotkäppchen"), "The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats", "Rumpelstiltskin" ("Rumpelstilzchen"), "Sleeping Beauty" ("Dornröschen"), and "Snow White" ("Schneewittchen"). Their classic collection, Children's and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen), was published in two volumes—the first in 1812 and the second in 1815.