Oblong quarto, dimensions 380 x 270mm. 22 india-paper proof etchings, including engraved-title and frontispiece, the final ten of which in undivided form; with an additional standalone plate, 'The Blue Light', added at end. Exquisitely bound in nineteenth-century pale blue gilt-tooled morocco, by Riviere. Slightest of rubbing to extremities, bumping to corners.

A finely presented collection of india-paper proof etchings of the illustrations for one of caricaturist and book illustrator George Cruikshank's (1792-1878) most successful productions; the first English translation of the Grimm Brother's Kinder- und Hausmärchen.

The additional plate in this volume ('The Blue Light') was executed privately by Cruikshank, for John Ruskin - who greatly admired the former, comparing his 'realism and frank worldliness' to Rembrandt - and apparently one of just 12 impressions taken.