"Little Brother & Little Sister" by Brothers Grimm and illustrated by Arthur Rackham Constable, London - 1917 first UK edition - Twelve color plates tipped-in on grey stock with captions, forty-three black and white drawings by Rackham - 250p, 25cmx20cm - condition: good, in original green binding with gilding with minor rubbing to ends, scattered foxing, all plates present, few plate corner creasings. Rare Rackham title Rackham at the height of his creative powers, depicting Snow White and Rose Red, one of the best loved of Grimm's Fairy Tales. The image combines all of Rackham's most characteristic elements: a bad-tempered dwarf in pursuit of gold, sinuous trees and two maidens coming to his aid. Rackham's depiction of Grimm's fairytales, when at the height of his creative powers. Of Little Brother & Little Sister, Fred Gettings claims, "it would be possible to select any single colour picture in order to demonstrate Rackham's art at its finest".