The German edition of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children’s and Household Tales) that I worked from is the most easily available, the seventh edition of 1857. It is published by Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag. The ‘tale type’ numbers I give in the notes to each story are based on The Types of International Folktales, the great index of tale types originally compiled by Antti Aarne and published in 1910, revised by Stith Thompson in 1928 and 1961, and most recently (2004) revised by Hans-Jörg Uther (see full details below) — hence ‘ATU’ or ‘AT’ for the earlier edition. This section otherwise includes the works I found most interesting and helpful.
Aesop, The Complete Fables, tr. Olivia Temple (London: Penguin Books, 1998)
Afanasyev, Alexander, Russian Fairy Tales, tr. Norbert Guterman (New York: Pantheon Books, 1945)
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, tr. Malcolm C. Lyons with Ursula Lyons, introduced and annotated by Robert Irwin (London: Penguin Books, 2008)
Ashliman, D. L., A Guide to Folktales in the English Language (New York: Greenwood Press, 1987)
Bettelheim, Bruno, The Uses of Enchantment (London: Peregrine Books, 1978)
Briggs, Katharine M., A Dictionary of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies and Other Supernatural Creatures (London: Allen Lane, 1976)
— Folk Tales of Britain (London: Folio Society, 2011)
Calvino, Italo, Italian Folktales, tr. George Martin (London: Penguin Books, 1982)
Chandler Harris, Joel, The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1955)
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, Brothers Grimm: Selected Tales, tr. David Luke, Gilbert McKay and Philip Schofield (London: Penguin Books, 1982)
— The Penguin Complete Grimms’ Tales for Young and Old, tr. Ralph Mannheim (London: Penguin Books, 1984)
— The Complete Fairy Tales, tr. Jack Zipes (London: Vintage, 2007)
— The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales, tr. Margaret Hunt, ed. James Stern, introduced by Padraic Colum and with a commentary by Joseph Campbell (Abingdon: Routledge, 2002)
Lang, Andrew, Crimson Fairy Book (New York: Dover Publications, 1967)
— Pink Fairy Book (New York: Dover Publications, 2008)
Perrault, Charles, Perrault’s Complete Fairy Tales, tr. A. E. Johnson and others (London: Puffin Books, 1999)
Philip, Neil, The Cinderella Story (London: Penguin Books, 1989)
Ransome, Arthur, Old Peter’s Russian Tales (London: Puffin Books, 1974)
Schmiesing Ann, ‘Des Knaben Wunderhorn and the German Volkslied in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries’ (http://mahlerfest.org/mfXIV/schmiesing_lecture.html)
Tatar, Maria, The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987)
Uther, Hans-Jörg, The Types of International Folktales: A Classification and Bibliography Based on the System of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson, vols. 1–3, FF Communications No. 284–86 (Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2004)
Warner, Marina, From the Beast to the Blonde: Of Fairy Tales and their Tellers (London: Vintage, 1995)
— No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock (London: Vintage, 2000)
Zipes, Jack, The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)
— Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre (New York: Routledge, 2006)
— (ed.), The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2001)
— (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)