Mervyn Peake illustrator, Grimm's Household Tales, 1946, 1st edtion thus

7 x 8.25 inches (17.5 x 21.5 cm), 303pp., octavo. Hardback cloth with dust jacket. First edition thus, first impression. 56 drawings by Mervyn Peake in black and white in the text and five color illustrations (including double-title page) on inserted plates, publisher's decorated yellow cloth stamped in black. A collection of drawings classic folk tales, derived largely from the 1884 Bohn Household Tales anthology translated by Margaret Hunt. Mereyn Peak expresses the stories exuberance, comedy, earthiness and pathos with exceptional imaginative power.

Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The four works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien, but Peake's surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology. (Wikipedia)

The Brothers Grimm (die Brüder Grimm or die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were German academics who together collected and published folklore. The brothers are among the best-known storytellers of folktales, popularizing stories such as "Cinderella" ("Aschenputtel"), "The Frog Prince" ("Der Froschkönig"), "Hansel and Gretel" ("Hänsel und Gretel"), "Little Red Riding Hood" ("Rotkäppchen"), "Rapunzel", "Rumpelstiltskin" ("Rumpelstilzchen"), "Sleeping Beauty" ("Dornröschen"), and "Snow White" ("Schneewittchen"). Their first collection of folktales, Children's and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen), began publication in 1812. (Wikipedia)