Grimm's Folk Tales

This collection presents the folk tales gathered by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from German-speaking informants and from earlier print sources, first issued in 1812 and enlarged in later editions. The stories include household tales of children, soldiers, animals, and enchanted spouses, alongside more brutal narratives of cruelty, bargain, and reward. Typical figures are witches, kings, simpletons, and clever younger siblings; typical plots turn on tests, transformations, and the breaking of a prohibition. The brothers frame the material as popular tradition rather than original fiction. The book is an anthology of wonder tales, not a single framed novel.

Bound in full red cloth with a figure in gold on a grey panel. White dust-jacket printed in purple and pale blue. Variant bindings, one with a silk headband and a smaller Folio Society colophon on the spine of the book, the other with no headband and a larger Folio Society colophon on the spine.