THE FAIRY BOOK THE BEST POPULAR FAIRY STORIES SELECTED AND RENDERED ANEW by BY the Author of 'john Halifax, gentleman' - 1923

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1874. good hardcover; green covers, water damage to back cover, last few pages; binding solid, internally pages white and clean; Interesting retelling of many tairy tales; . Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Good. 5 x 7".

New York: Macmillan and Co. Very Good. 1880. Hardcover. xi, (1), 368 pages; A lovely example of this uncommon 19th century book of fairytales. Contents clean and secure in original publisher's blue cloth decoratively stamped in gold and black. Very mild rubbing at spine ends, one tiny closed tear at edge of spine, brown endpapers clean and intact, original owner's note on t.p. "Master Charlie Sherrill / Birth-day gift / from Mama / April 13, 1881" OCLC 3044040 Illustrated with ten full page color plates. This collection of 36 fairytales includes such classics as The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Jack the Giant-Killer, Rumpelstilzchen, Clever Alice, Little Red-Riding-Hood, Puss in Boots, The Yellow Dwarf, and many more. Dinah Maria Craik (born Dinah Maria Mulock, 1826– 1887) was an English novelist and poet. She is best remembered for her novel - John Halifax, Gentleman - which portrays mid-Victorian ideals of… Read More

[CRAIK (Dinah Mulock)] by the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman":The Fairy Book. The Best Popular Fairy Stories selected and rendered anew.London and Cambridge: Macmillan & Co., 1863.Circular engraved title vignette exquisitely designed by J. Noel Paton with anonymous woodcut initial letters.Small 8vo., green pictorial stamped cloth (a bit dulled), light pencil annotations on index leaves identifying about a dozen original source.First edition.An important collection of 36 traditional tales culled from the works of Perrault, d'Aulnoy, the Bros Grimm, fokelore and legend, here newly translated and re-written to create a pleasurable experience for modern British children. In some instances various versions have been collated, compared and combined. In all, there is no moral lesson to be learnt that cannot be self-understood from the text.