Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Noel Pocock. London: Humphrey, Milford, [1920]. Cream cloth boards, lettered & illustrated in gilt , in publisher’s matching slipcase. Light spotting to preliminary leaves otherwise a fine bright copy.

A lovely edition of this classic work illustrated with twelve coloured plates by Noel Pocock.

A collection of well-loved fairy tales by the brothers Grimm – Jakob & Wilhelm. Stories include Hansel and Gretel, Tom Thumb, Rumpelstiltskin, The Goose Girl, The Elves and The Show Maker and many more.

Noel Pocock was a prolific English illustrator active in the 1910s-1930s, known for his delicate, romantic, and quintessentially English interpretation of fairy tales and literary classics.