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The Grimm tales in the German they were first printed in. Unmodernized, uncensored.
All 156 tales of the 1812 and 1815 first edition in the original German text, spelling and all, including the 32 tales the brothers later erased. Hardcover, 14 original woodcut plates.
- ✓The original 1812 and 1815 text, word for word as published in Berlin, not the 1857 rewrite
- ✓32 erased tales, restored to their original places
- ✓Case-bound hardcover, 6 × 9 in, 366 pages, cream book stock
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156
tales, none omitted
32
erased tales, restored
14
original woodcut plates
1812
original German text, unmodernized
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. In this edition you read them in the German the Grimms wrote.
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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Case binding, cream paper, and the woodcut plates sit flat and dark on the page. It looks like a book someone meant to keep.
Daniel R. · Portland, OR
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Ordered at 11pm, was reading the erased tales by 11:05. The hardcover arrived nine days later and sits on the nightstand now.
Maren K. · Austin, TX
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Gift for my sister who teaches folklore. She said she had never held the first edition's tales in one volume. Now I have to buy another.
Jonas W. · Chicago, IL
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 and promises the girl hers are next.
- 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 she must kill her to 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. The text is the Grimms’ own, in the spelling of 1812. Matte-laminate case binding on cream book stock.
- Binding
- Case-bound hardcover, matte laminate
- Size
- 6 × 9 in (152 × 229 mm), 366 pages
- Paper
- 60 lb cream book stock
- Plates
- Frontispiece and 14 full-page woodcut plates
- Text
- Original German text of Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, vol. 1 (1812) and vol. 2 (1815), in the spelling of the first edition
- Publisher
- Wolfsmund Lane Press, 2026
Read a page
Sneewittchen, 1812. The stepmother hasn’t been invented yet.
Tale 53, in the Grimms’ own German. In the first printing the queen who wants the child dead is her own mother. The full German digital edition is free with the hardcover.
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Es war einmal mitten im Winter, und die Schneeflocken fielen wie Federn vom Himmel, da saß eine schöne Königin an einem Fenster, das hatte einen Rahmen von schwarzem Ebenholz, und nähte. Und wie sie so nähte und nach dem Schnee aufblickte, stach sie sich mit der Nadel in den Finger, und es fielen drei Tropfen Blut in den Schnee. Und weil das Rothe in dem Weißen so schön aussah, so dachte sie: hätt ich doch ein Kind so weiß wie Schnee, so roth wie Blut und so schwarz wie dieser Rahmen. Und bald darauf bekam sie ein Töchterlein, so weiß wie der Schnee, so roth wie das Blut, und so schwarz wie Ebenholz, und darum ward es das Sneewittchen genannt.
Die Königin war die schönste im ganzen Land, und gar stolz auf ihre Schönheit. Sie hatte auch einen Spiegel, vor den trat sie alle Morgen und fragte:
„Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand:
wer ist die schönste Frau in dem ganzen Land?“
da sprach das Spieglein allzeit:
„Ihr, Frau Königin, seyd die schönste Frau im Land.“
Und da wußte sie gewiß, daß niemand schöner auf der Welt war. Sneewittchen aber wuchs heran, und als es sieben Jahr alt war, war es so schön, daß es selbst die Königin an Schönheit übertraf, und als diese ihren Spiegel fragte:
„Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand:
wer ist die schönste Frau in dem ganzen Land?“
sagte der Spiegel:
„Frau Königin, Ihr seyd die schönste hier,
aber Snewittchen ist noch tausendmal schöner als Ihr!“
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 are missing from nearly every Grimm edition on a shelf today.
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 German text 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.
- Is the audiobook included?
- The German edition comes with the German PDF and EPUB. The free English audiobook, 10 tales narrated in full, is included with the German + English set.
- Do you ship outside the USA?
- The hardcover ships to US addresses only. Readers anywhere can get the German 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, including every tale they later removed, in the Grimms' own German.
- Which German text is this?
- The text of the first edition as printed in Berlin in 1812 and 1815, in its original spelling (seyn, Thor, daß). Nothing has been modernized, cut or explained away. The English edition follows the same text, so the set reads side by side.
- Can I read 1812 German?
- If you read German, yes. The spelling is older than today's and a few words have shifted, but the sentences are the Grimms' own and read easily aloud.
- 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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