A Study of Fairy Tales eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 330 pages of information about A Study of Fairy Tales.

A Study of Fairy Tales eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 330 pages of information about A Study of Fairy Tales.

     1783. The Lilliputian Magazine.  Illustrated by Thomas
     Bewick, published by Carnan.

     1788. The Pleasing Companion, A Collection of Fairy Tales.

     1788. Fairy Tales Selected from the Best Authors, 2 vols.

1770-91.  Books published by John Evans, of Long Lane.  Printed on coarse sugar paper.  They included:  Cock Robin, 1791; Mother Hubbard; Cinderella; and The Tragical Death of an Apple Pye.

     1809. A Collection of Popular Stories for the Nursery,
     translated from French, Italian, and Old English, by
     Benjamin Tabart, in 4 volumes.

     1810 (about). Lilliputian Library, by J.G.  Rusher, of
     Bridge St., Banbury.  The Halfpenny Series included: 

Mother Hubbard and Her Dog; Jack The Giant-Killer; Dick Whittington and His Cat; The History of Tom Thumb (Middlesex); Death and Burial of Cock Robin; and Cinderella and Her Glass Slipper.

     The Penny Series included:—­

          History of a Banbury Cake, and Jack the
          Giant-Killer
, designed by Craig, engraved by Lee.

     Of Rusher’s books those engraved by the Bewick School were: 

          Code Robin; The History of Tom Thumb; and
          Children in the Wood.

     Rusher’s books also included: 

Mother Hubbard and Her Dog, Cinderella and Her Glass Slipper, and Dick Whittington and His Cat, all designed by Cruikshank, engraved by Branstone.
1818. Fairy Tales, or the Lilliputian Cabinet, collected by Benj.  Tabart, London.  This was a new edition of the collection of 1809, and contained twenty-four stories.  A full review of it may be seen in the Quarterly Review, 1819, No. 41, pp. 91-112.  The tales included translations from Perrault, Madame D’Aulnoy, Madame de Beaumont, tales from The Thousand and One Nights, and from Robin Hood; and the single tales of Jack the Oiant-Killer, Tom Thumb, and Jack and the Bean-Stalk.
1824, 1826. German Popular Stories, translated by Edgar Taylor, with illustrations by Cruikshank, published by Charles Tilt, London.  A new edition, introduction by Ruskin, was published by Chatto & Windus, 1880.

The above are the main collections of fairy tales in England.  Many individual publications show the gradual development of fairy tale illustration in England:[6]—­

     1713-1767.  John Newbery’s Books for Children.  Among these
     were Beauty and the Beast, by Charles Lamb, 1765, and
     Sinbad the Sailor, 1798.

     1778. Fabulous Histories of the Robins.  Mrs. Sarah
     Trimmer.  Cuts designed by Thomas Bewick, engraved by John
     Thompson, Whittingham’s Chiswick Press.

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