German Popular Stories.
Collected by the Brothers Grimm, and Translated by Edgar Taylor. Edited, with an Introduction, by John Ruskin. With 22 Illustrations after the inimitable designs of George Cruikshank. Both Series Complete.
“The illustrations of this volume ... are of quite sterling and admirable art, of a class precisely parallel in elevation to the character of the tales which they illustrate; and the original etchings, as I have before said in the Appendix to my ‘Elements of Drawing,’ were unrivalled in masterfulness of touch since Rembrandt (in some qualities of delineation, unrivalled even by him).... To make somewhat enlarged copies of them, looking at them through a magnifying glass, and never putting two lines where Cruikshank has put only one, would be an exercise in decision and severe drawing which would leave afterwards little to be learnt in schools.”—Extract from Introduction by John Ruskin.
One Vol. crown 8vo, cloth extra, 9s.
Gilbert’s (W. S.) Original Plays:
“A Wicked World,” “Charity,” “The Palace of Truth,” “Pygmalion,” “Trial by Jury,” &c.
“His workmanship is in its way perfect; it is very sound, very even, very well sustained, and excellently balanced throughout.”—Observer.
Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, 4s. 6d.