Grimm Brothers’ First Edition: Its Translation into English and What It Entails

Take a good, hard look at what I got for my birthday this year:

The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition

Isn’t it beautiful?

That, ladies and gentlemen, is a copy of the famous book by the Grimm brothers, only better: It’s the first translation into English ever of that book’s first edition, published in 1812. This copy, published by Princeton University Press, was translated by Jack Zipes, an American scholar and professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota who is an expert in the fairy tale matter.