Anmerkungen zu den Kinder - und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm. Erster Band, (Nr.1-60)

Leipzig : Dieterich Verlag, 1913. — 556 p.Fundamental and momentous work based on the annotations to Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s fairy tales that Johannes Bolte published in collaboration with the Czech scholar Jiří Polívka. Published in five volumes between 1913 and 1932, the "Anmerkungen zu den Kinder- und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm" ("Annotations to Grimms’ Children’s and Household Tales") significantly expands the Grimms’ own annotations by further documenting sources and international variants of the brothers’ tales. This was especially critical at the time, when scholars practicing the historic-geographic method were interested in documenting tale types and tracking their diffusion. In a broader context, however, the work’s importance lies in its serving as a foundational resource for the comparative study of European folktales.