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Author: The Brothers Grimm. (Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm; (Edward Henry Wehnert, illustrator)).
Title: The House in the Wood and Other Tales. (Grimm's Fairy Library).
Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, no date (circa 1870s).
Language: Text in English.
Size : 7 " X 5 ".
Pages: 128 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good original illustrated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright and tight, rare foxing and staining, offsetting to endpaper - as shown). 
Illustrations: Nicely illustrated with a beautiful color frontispiece and some intext b&w illustrations by Wehnert.

The book: Scarce and attractive edition of Brothers Grimm fairy tales including The House in the Wood, The Young Giant, Hans Married, The Dwarfs, The King of the Golden Mountain, The Raven, The Three Birds, The Water of Life, The Peasant's Wise Daughter, Doctor Know-All, The Two Wanderers, The Spirit in the Bottle, The Experienced Huntsman, Bearskin, The Sweet Soup.

The Authors:  The Brothers Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Carl Grimm (1786–1859), were German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together collected and published folklore during the 19th century. They were among the first and best-known collectors of German and European folk tales, and popularized traditional oral tale types such as "Cinderella" ("Aschenputtel"), "The Frog Prince" ("Der Froschkönig"), "The Goose-Girl" ("Die Gänsemagd"), "Hansel and Gretel" ("Hänsel und Gretel"), "Rapunzel", "Little Red Riding Hood" ("Rotkäppchen"), "The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats", "Rumpelstiltskin" ("Rumpelstilzchen"), "Sleeping Beauty" ("Dornröschen"), and "Snow White" ("Schneewittchen"). Their classic collection, Children's and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen) was published in two volumes—the first in 1812 and the second in 1815.

The illustrator:  Edward Henry Wehnert (1813–1868) was an English-born painter of landscape, genre, and historical subjects, now best remembered for his illustrations in books and magazines.