Details

Subject(s)

• Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Illustrator

Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941 [Browse]

Publisher

Longmans, Green, and Co. [Browse]

Printer

Spottiswoode & Co. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Fairy tales [Browse]
• Publishers' cloth bindings [Browse]
• Publishers' advertisements [Browse]
• Inscriptions [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of 48 fairy and folk tales from Russia, Germany, France, Iceland, the "Red Indian," and others.

Notes

• "Spottiswoode and Co., printers, New-Street Square, London"--Colophon.
• Publisher's advertisements ("Works by Andrew Lang") on half-title verso and on [2] p. at end: "The Outdoor World Series" and "Books for Girls."
• In his preface, Lang defends his collections, and those of Joseph Jacobs, against the attack by Laurence Gomme of the Folk-Lore Society ("he did not think it very nice in them to publish fairy books").
• Engraved frontis., t.p. vignette, 22 leaves of plates (not included in pagination), and numerous smaller "woodcuts" throughout the text, signed by Ford.
• Princeton copy 2 Cotsen c. 2: "Lillian, Xmas 1897"--Inscribed in pink, in a caligraphic hand, on front free endpaper.

Action note

Committed to retain 20421231 — HathiTrust (NjP)

Binding note

Pub. yellow cloth bds., gilt-stamped with pictorial designs on upper cover (of a fairy and the sun) and spine (from the "Cat and the Mouse in Partnership"); all edges gilt; black endpapers.

References

• Osborne Coll., p. 36
• Gumuchian, 3647

Place name(s)

• England London.
• United States New York New York.

OCLC

2336314

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