Some fairy tales with rather lovely vintage illustrations. Instead of the Grimm stories we are so familiar with, these are translated from Ludwig Bechstein's collection of German fairytales and legends. Randall Jarrell in the introduction describes the stories like this:
"A few fairy tales are like wedding cakes, a few are like old stale soda crackers, and most are like plain rye bread baked in a country oven, These three stories are rye bread."
The Rabbit Catcher
And Other Fairy Tales of Ludwig Bechstein
translated by Randall Jarrell
illustrated by Ugo Fontana 1962
(Ugo Fontana was an Italian illustrator and I always enjoy finding his work).
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