• Publication: The Fairy Tales of the Brothers GrimmPublication Record # 378205
• Authors: Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
• Date: 1909-10-00
• Publisher: Constable & Co. Ltd.
• Price:
  42/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: xv+325
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • Edition de Luxe
  • Limited edition of 750 numbered and signed copies. Colored frontispiece + 39 mounted color plates and numerous illustrations.
  • Data from WorldCat and from Christie's Auction House.
  • Publication date (inferred) and price from publisher "Announcements" and later lists, 1909-10-09 to -11-06. The publisher consistently states: "With 40 full-page plates in colour and 70 drawings in the text." "4to cloth. 15s. net. Edition de Luxe, limited to 750 copies, 42s. net."
  • Library of Congress (LCCN, below) reports a copy of the limited edition as 40 mounted plates including frontispiece; "Each plate accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress." "Title in red and black within ornamental border." Size 30 cm.
• External IDs:
  • BL: 001516705
  • LCCN: w10-177
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 718693919 3449994

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