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001 $ 14/3597
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20200305114936.8
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Grimm, Jacob
100 1 # $a Grimm, Wilhelm
245 1 0 $a Household tales / $c by the Brothers Grimm ; illustrated by Mervyn Peake
246 3 # $a Grimm's Household Tales. Drawings by Melvyn Peake. [Dust-jacket and spine title].
250 # # $a 1st edition
260 # # $a London $b Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd. $c 1946
300 # # $a 303 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. (hbk).
500 # # $a “This book, first published in 1946, is printed and bound in accordance with the authorized economy regulations by the Chapel River Press, Andover, Hants, for Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd., 14, 15, & 16 Bedford Street, London, W.C.2.” [colophon].
500 # # $a “This edition of the most famous of folk stories is based chiefly on the Bohn collection of 1884 for which Andrew Lang wrote the introduction, but a few stories from other versions have bee included. Fifty-six drawings in black and white and five coloured plates by Mervyn Peake express their exuberance, comedy, earthiness and pathos with an imaginative power which should give this edition a permanent place among English illustrated books.” [dust-jacket].
563 # # $a Black and read illustrated dust-jacket. Yellow cloth covers lettered in black on the upper cover and spine. Spine title: “Grimm’s Household Tales. Drawings by Mervyn Peake. E. & S.”
653 # # $a Illustrated books
653 # # $a Fairy tales
700 1 # $a Peake, Mervyn $e illustrator
710 2 # $a Eyre and Spottiswoode (Publishers) Limited $e publisher
710 2 # $a Chapel River Press $e printer