
1812 Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Grimms’ Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children’s and Household Tales, is a German collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812. The first volume of the first edition was published in 1812, containing 86 stories; the second volume of 70 stories followed in 1815. For the second edition, two volumes containing the Kinder- und Hausmärchen texts were issued in 1819 and the appendix was removed and published separately in the third volume in 1822, totaling 170 tales. Stories were added, and also removed, from one edition to the next, until the seventh held 210 tales. Some later editions […]