Little Red Riding Hood
Grimm, J., Grimm, W., Lucas, A., & Rackham, A. (1909). The fairy tales of the brothers Grimm. Constable. Maastricht University Special Collections. – 009
Rare, sought-after first edition of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, and published by Constable in London in 1909. This is the first U.K. edition, with 40 tipped-in colored plates, plus many in-text black-and-white illustrations. Original decoratively gilt-stamped red cloth cover. “The Studio”, an illustrated fine- and applied-art magazine, reviewed this particular edition in…
Read MoreGrimm, J., Grimm, W., Lucas, A., & Rackham, A. (1909). The fairy tales of the brothers Grimm. Constable. Maastricht University Special Collections. – 008
Rare, sought-after first edition of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, and published by Constable in London in 1909. This is the first U.K. edition, with 40 tipped-in colored plates, plus many in-text black-and-white illustrations. Original decoratively gilt-stamped red cloth cover. “The Studio”, an illustrated fine- and applied-art magazine, reviewed this particular edition in…
Read MoreLittle Red Riding Hood (pen and watercolor on paper). In Steel, F.A.W., & Rackham, A. (1918) English fairy tales. MacMillan & Co. Maastricht University Special Collections. Call number: MU KPB 010
Little Red Riding Hood is a prime example of the universality of fairy tales and the rules they encompass. To begin with, Charles Perrault included this story in his own collection more than a century before the Brothers Grimm added it to theirs. The rules represented in the Grimm version of the story therefore cannot…
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