The fairy book :
the best popular fairy stories selected and rendered anew /
by the author of "John Halifax, gentleman" ; with coloured illustrations and ornamental borders by J.E. Rogers.
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Macmillan and Co.,
1870.
R. Clay, Sons and Taylor, Printers, |
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| Notes: | Mrs. Craik, who was a successful novelist, first edited this collection for Macmillan's 'Golden Treasury Series', in 1863. It had ornamental initials, but no plates. The publisher, probably in response to the re-issue of the Cruikshank edition of Grimms' illustrator James Edward Rogers, and created a companion or rival collection of fairy tales for the nursery shelf. Physical description: x, 368 pages, [10] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 19 cm more |
Table of Contents:
The sleeping beauty in the wood
Hop-o'-my-thumb
Cinderella, or, the little glass slipper
Adventures of Jack Dietrich
Beauty and the beast
Little One Eye, Little Two Eyes, and Little Three Eyes
Jack the Giant-Killer
Tom Thumb
Rumpelstilzchen
Fortunatus
The Bremen Town musicians
Riquet with the tuft
House Island
Snow-White and Rose-Red
Jack and the bean-stalk
Graciosa and Percinet
The iron stove
The invisible prince
The woodcutter's daughter
Brother and sister
Littlle Red-Riding-Hood
Puss in boots
The wolf and the seven young goslings
The fair one with golden locks
The butterfly
The frog-prince
The white cat
Prince Cherry
Little Snowdrop
The blue bird
The yellow dwarf
The six swans
The prince with the nose
The hind of the forest
The juniper-tree
Clever Alice.
The sleeping beauty in the wood
Hop-o'-my-thumb
Cinderella, or, the little glass slipper
Adventures of Jack Dietrich
Beauty and the beast
Little One Eye, Little Two Eyes, and Little Three Eyes
Jack the Giant-Killer
Tom Thumb
Rumpelstilzchen
Fortunatus
The Bremen Town musicians
Riquet with the tuft
House Island
Snow-White and Rose-Red
Jack and the bean-stalk
Graciosa and Percinet
The iron stove
The invisible prince
The woodcutter's daughter
Brother and sister
Littlle Red-Riding-Hood
Puss in boots
The wolf and the seven young goslings
The fair one with golden locks
The butterfly
The frog-prince
The white cat
Prince Cherry
Little Snowdrop
The blue bird
The yellow dwarf
The six swans
The prince with the nose
The hind of the forest
The juniper-tree
Clever Alice.