Bluebeard
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"Bluebeard" is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault and first published by Claude Barbin in Paris in 1697 in Histoires ou contes du temps passé
Bluebeard, his wife, and the key in a 1921 illustration by W. Heath Robinson
The Wife is given the keys of the house. Illustration by Walter Crane
Bluebeard is slain in a woodcut by Walter Crane
Edmund Dulac illustration, 1910
Grimms' Fairy Tales
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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. Vol. 1
Title page of first volume of Grimms' Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1819) 2nd ed.
Monument to brothers Grimm in the market place in Hanau (Hessen, Germany)
Frontispiece used for the first volume of the 1840 4th edition
Frontispiece used for the second volume of the 1840 4th edition. The portrait by Ludwig Emil Grimm bears resemblance to the storyteller Dorothea Viehmann.