GERMAN POPULAR STORIES BY THE BROTHERS GRIMM A reprint of the famous Brothers Grimm book of fairy tales, German Popular Stories (a.k.a. Children"s and Household Tales or Kinder- und Hausmarchen). This book, published for the centenary of the 1812 Children"s and Household Tales, "radically changed the destiny of what we today call the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm". The book features the 1868 book of Edgar Taylor"s translations of the Brothers Grimm, the first translations of the tales into English, which included reprints of the first two editions of 1823 and 1826 of the Grimms" stories in one volume, plus the original notes by Taylor. The book is illustrated with remarkable drawings by one of the great artists of the Victorian era, George Cruikshank, with an introduction by John Ruskin. The wealth of additional material includes letters by Sir Walter Scott and the Grimms, a note on Cruikshank, extracts from Gammer Grethel, Taylor"s follow-up Grimm...