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The Grimm tales as first printed. Before anyone softened them.
All 156 tales from the 1812 and 1815 first edition, newly translated from the German, including the 32 tales the brothers later erased. Hardcover, 14 original woodcut plates.
- ✓Complete and uncensored: nothing cut, nothing explained away
- ✓32 erased tales, restored to their original places
- ✓Case-bound hardcover, 6 × 9 in, 356 pages, cream book stock
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156
tales, none omitted
32
erased tales, restored
14
original woodcut plates
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1857 vs 1812
The version you were told. And the one they printed first.
The Grimms revised their tales through seven editions over 45 years. What everyone knows comes from the last one, 1857. Six examples of what the first one says.
Snow White
1857 A wicked stepmother sends a huntsman after her.
1812 Her own mother orders him to bring back her lungs and liver.
Hansel and Gretel
1857 A stepmother talks the father into abandoning them.
1812 Their mother walks them into the forest to die.
Rapunzel
1857 The witch finds out when Rapunzel lets it slip.
1812 The fairy finds out when Rapunzel's dress stops fitting around her belly.
Cinderella
1857 The slipper fits Cinderella and no one else.
1812 One sister cuts off her toe, the other her heel. The blood in the stocking gives them away.
How Children Played Butcher
1857 Gone. The brothers removed it after the first edition.
1812 Children playing butcher cut a little boy's throat and catch his blood for sausages.
The Frog King
1857 A kiss breaks the spell.
1812 The princess throws the frog against the wall as hard as she can.
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I've read Grimm in three translations and never seen the 1812 text in full. The differences are not small. The woodcuts alone justify the price.
Daniel R. · Portland, OR
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Ordered at 11pm, was reading “The Hand with the Knife” by 11:05. The hardcover arrived nine days later and is heavier and nicer than the photos suggest.
Maren K. · Austin, TX
★★★★★
Gift for my sister who teaches folklore. She said the translation is closer to the German than anything she uses in class. Now I have to buy another.
Jonas W. · Chicago, IL
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For October nights
Six tales the Grimms erased. Read them with the lights on.
None of these survived past the first edition, so almost no Grimm book on a shelf today has them. All six are in this one.
- The Murder Castle
- In the cellar an old woman sits scraping intestines. “Tomorrow I shall scrape yours too.”
- The Mother-in-Law
- The old queen orders her grandson slaughtered and served for dinner. In a brown sauce.
- The Children in Famine
- A starving mother tells her daughter: “I must kill you, so that I have something to eat.”
- The Hand with the Knife
- Her brothers cut off her lover’s hand with his own knife, and he is never seen again.
- The Okerlo
- A baby girl washes up on an island of man-eaters. The old one can’t wait for the wedding feast.
- Bluebeard
- One door in the castle she must never open. Of course she opens it.
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The edition
Made to be kept, not shelved.
Fourteen woodcut plates were cut for this edition, one for each tale where the first printing differs most from the one you were told. Matte-laminate case binding on cream book stock, printed in the USA.
- Binding
- Case-bound hardcover, matte laminate
- Size
- 6 × 9 in (152 × 229 mm), 356 pages
- Paper
- 60 lb cream book stock
- Plates
- Frontispiece and 14 full-page woodcut plates
- Text
- New English translation of Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, vol. 1 (1812) and vol. 2 (1815)
- Publisher
- Wolfsmund Lane Press, 2026
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Snow White, 1812. The stepmother hasn’t been invented yet.
Tale 53. In the first printing the queen who wants the child dead is her own mother. The full digital edition is free with the hardcover, so you can finish this tonight.
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Snow White, 1812 · the opening0:00 / 0:30
From the free audiobook: 10 tales, 53 minutes, included with every hardcover.
53 · Snow White
Once upon a time, in the middle of winter, when the snowflakes were falling like feathers from the sky, a beautiful queen sat at a window that had a frame of black ebony, and sewed. And as she was sewing like that and looked up at the snow, she pricked her finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell into the snow. And because the red looked so beautiful in the white, she thought: if only I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood and as black as this frame. And soon after she had a little daughter, as white as the snow, as red as the blood, and as black as ebony, and that is why she was called Snow White.
The queen was the most beautiful in the whole land, and very proud of her beauty. She also had a mirror, before which she stepped every morning and asked:
"Mirror, mirror, on the wall you stand, who is the fairest woman in the whole land?"
Continued in the book, along with 155 more.
156 tales. 32 of them the Grimms later erased.
Every tale from both volumes, in the order first printed. The ones in red were removed after 1815 and have been out of most readers’ reach for two hundred years.
The Hand with the KnifeOf the Wicked Flax-SpinningMister Quick and ReadyHow Children Played ButcherDeath and the GooseherdPuss in BootsThe Strange FeastThe Faithful Godfather SparrowPrince SwanThe Golden EggThe Tailor Who Soon Grew RichBluebeard+ 20 more
Questions
- When will it arrive?
- Each copy is bound to order and ships from the USA within about a week. Most orders arrive within 2 to 3 weeks. We email you the day it ships.
- What is the free digital edition?
- The complete book as a PDF and an EPUB, page for page the same as the hardcover, plates included. It unlocks on your confirmation page the moment payment completes, so you can start reading tonight.
- What is in the free audiobook?
- 10 tales from this edition, narrated in full, about 53 minutes: the 1812 Snow White and 8 of the erased tales. You get it as a chaptered M4B for Apple Books and audiobook apps, and as MP3 files. There is a free sample on this page.
- Do you ship outside the USA?
- The hardcover ships to US addresses only. Readers anywhere can get the digital edition, the same PDF and EPUB, for $14.95, delivered by email the moment you order.
- Does it work on Kindle?
- Yes. Send the EPUB to your Kindle with Amazon's Send to Kindle, or open it in Apple Books, Kobo or any e-reader. The PDF opens anywhere.
- How is this different from other Grimm books?
- Nearly every Grimm collection in print follows the 1857 seventh edition, which the brothers rewrote for children over 45 years. This is the 1812 and 1815 first edition, complete, translated directly from the German, including every tale they later removed.
- Who translated it?
- The translation is new to this edition, made in-house by Alexander Rubin from the 1812 and 1815 German text with the support of language models, and reviewed line by line. It follows the first-edition wording rather than the later, softened editions, including the tales the brothers removed.
- Is it for children?
- It was collected for households, not nurseries. It contains violence and cruelty, and one antisemitic tale kept unaltered for completeness. Read it before you hand it on.
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