Arthur Rackham - "The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm" (1909) [Spirit of the Ages Collection]

The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1909) is a collection of the classic Grimm's tales with an updated and enlarged range

The great illustrator notes the factors leading to the 1909 Edition in his Prefatory Note to the volume, thus:

Some years ago a selection of Grimm's Fairy Tales with one hundred illustrations of mine

in black and white was published - in 1900, by Messrs. Freemantle and Co., and afterwards

At intervals since then I have been at work on the original drawings, partially or entirely

re-drawing some of them in colour, adding new ones in colour and in black and white,

and generally overhauling them as a set, supplementing and omitting, with a view to the

Of the forty coloured illustrations, many are elaborations of the earlier black and white

drawings or are founded on them. The frontispiece, and those facing pp. 34, 70, 94, 104,

116, 118, and 190 are entirely new, and several of the text illustrations also have not been

published before. The remaining illustrations in the text have been reconsidered and

When presented on Greeting Cards, these images are prepared as tipped-in plates - in hommage to the hand-crafted approach

typical of prestige illustrated publications produced in the early decades of the 20th Century. Each card is hand-finished and

and the images are presented on Ivory card stock with an accompanying envelope. The rear of each card carries information

about Arthur Rackham, this wonderful suite and the profiled illustration - we have left the interior of the cards blank so that

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The Golden Bird

Away they flew over stock and stone,

at such a pace that his hair whistled in

the wind

Jorinda and Joringel

By day she made herself into a cat ...

Jorinda and Joringel

... Or a screech owl

Old Sultan

Once there was a poor old woman

who lived in a village

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Briar Rose

The King could not contain

himself for joy

(Frontispiece)

Briar Rose

The young Prince said, "I am not afraid;

I am determined to go and look upon

the lovely Briar Rose"

Briar Rose

At the third sting the Fox screamed,

and down went his tail between his

legs

The Cat and Mouse in Partnership

So she seized him with two fingers,

and carried him upstairs

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The Cat and Mouse in Partnership

The Cat stole away behind the city

walls to the church

The Goosegirl

Alas! dear Falada, there thou hangest

The Goosegirl

Blow, blow, little breeze,

And Conrad's hat seize

The Adventures of Chanticleer

and Partlet

Now we will go up the hill and have a

good feast before the squirrel carries off

all the nuts

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Rapunzel

When he went over the wall he was terrified

to see the Witch before him

Rapunzel

The Witch climbed up

The Valiant Tailor

Pulling the piece of soft cheese out of his

pocket, he squeezed it till the moisture

ran out

The Valiant Tailor

They worked themselves up into such

a rage that they tore up trees by the

roots, and hacked at each other till

they both fell dead

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Hansel and Grethel

All at once the door opened and an

old, old Woman, supporting herself

on a crutch, came hobbling out

Hansel and Grethel

Hansel put out a knuckle-bone, and

the old Woman, whose eyes were

dim, could not see, and thought it

was his finger, and she was much

astonished that he did not get fat

Red Riding Hood

When she got to the wood, she met

a Wolf

Red Riding Hood

"O Grandmother, what big ears

you have got," she said

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Tom Thumb

At last she reached the cellar, and there

she found an old, old woman with a

shaking head

Tom Thumb

When Tom had said good-bye to his Father

they went away with him

The Little Peasant

Then he ran after him, still holding

the carving-knife, and cried, "Only

one, only one!"

Fred and Kay

The Old Man had to sit by himself, and

ate his food from a wooden bowl

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Sweetheart Roland

The quicker he played, the higher she

had to jump

Snowdrop

The Dwarfs, when they came in the

evening, found Snowdrop lying on

the ground

Ashenputtel

Ashenputtel goes to the ball

The White Snake

The Fishes, in their joy, stretched up

their heads above the water, and

promised to reward him

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The Wolf and the Seven Kids

The Seven Kids and their mother capered

and danced round the spring in their joy

The Four Clever Brothers

The Ducks which he had once saved,

dived and brought up the key from

the depths

The Four Clever Brothers

So the four Brothers took their sticks in their

hands, bade their Father good-bye, and passed

out of the town gate

The Four Clever Brothers

The King's only daughter had been

carried off by a Dragon

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The Lady and the Lion

She went away accompanied by the Lions

The Water of Life

Good Dwarf, can you not tell me

where my brothers are?

The King of the Golden Mountain

The Son made a circle, and his Father

and he took their places within it, and

the little black Mannikin appeared

Doctor Know-All

Once upon a time a poor Peasant, named

Crabb, was taking a load of wood drawn

by two oxen to the town for sale

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The Seven Ravens

The good little Sister cut off her own

tiny finger, fitted it into the lock, and

succeeded in opening it

The Seven Ravens

But they said one after another: "Halloa!

who has been eating off my plate? Who

has been drinking out of my cup?"

The Youth who could not Shudder

Then the Youth took the axe and split

the anvil with one blow, catching in

the Old Man's beard at the same time

King Thrushbeard

The Beggar took her by the hand

and led her away

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