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Six fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm with original etchings by David Hockney.

Accession number
PML 128120
Published
[London] Petersburg Press in association with the Kasmin Gallery [1970]
Credit line
Purchase; Acquisitions Fund; 1998.
Notes
Printed in four editions (A-D) of 100, each as identified by the plates appearing in the portfolio.
Library has Edition D, no. 51 of 100, containing 6 artist's proofs, signed.
Library's copy has proofs: The Princess in her tower (128121.1); The enchantress with the baby Rapunzel (128121.2); The sexton disguised as a ghost stood still as stone (128121.3); The haunted castle (128121.4); A black cat leaping (128121.5); The glass mountain (128121.6).
"Translated from the German and edited by Heiner Bastian."
Text printed by Vivian Ridler, University Press, Oxford, on paper, watermarked DH: PP, handmade by W. S. Hodgkinson, Bath.
Illustrations: 12 full-page and 27 smaller etchings (some with aquatint and drypoint) in the text, with 6 repeated, numbered and signed by the artist, in portfolio; printed by Piet Clement, Amsterdam. The original plates were defaced after printing.
Description
[61] p. (on double leaves) and portfolio (6 plates) : 39 illus. ; 47 cm.
Binding
Publisher's, by Rudolf Rieser, Cologne, of royal blue leather; text volume and portfolio enclosed in a slipcase of the same.
Classification
Department