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.
1846. The Good-Natured Bear, by Richard Hengist Home, the English critic.  This was illustrated by Frederick Taylor, published probably by Cundall.  The book is now out of print, but deserves to be reprinted.
1847-1864. Cruikshank Fairy Library.  A series of small books in paper wrappers.  Not equal to the German popular stories in illustration.  It included Tom Thumb, 1830; John Gilpin, 1828 (realistic); and The Brownies, 1870.

     1847. Bob and Dog Quiz.  Author unknown.  Revived by E.V. 
     Lucas in Old-fashioned Tales.  Illustrated by F.D.  Bedford;
     published by Stokes, 1905.

1850. The Child’s Own Book.  Published in London.  There was an earlier edition, not before 1830.  The introduction, which in the 1850 edition was copied from the original, indicates by its style that the book was written early in the nineteenth century.  The book was the delight of generations of children.  It was a collection containing tales from Arabian Nights, Perrault’s tales of Cinderella, Puss-in-Boots, Hop-o’-my-Thumb, Bluebeard, etc., D’Aulnoy’s Valentine and Orson, chap-book stories of Dick Whittinqton, Fortunatus, Griselda, Robinson Crusoe, The Children in the Wood, Little Jack, and others.  A recent edition of this book is in the Young Folks’ library, vol. 1, published by Hall & Locke, Boston, 1901.

     1850 (about). The Three Bears.  Illustrated by Absalon and
     Harrison Weir.  Addy and Co.

     1824-1889.  Work by Mrs. Mary Whateley.  She had a Moslem
     school in Cairo and exerted a fairy tale influence.

     1826-1887. The Little Lame Prince; Adventures of a
     Brownie; and The Fairy Book.  Produced by Mrs. Dinah
     Muloch Craik.

     1854. The Rose and the Ring, by William M. Thackeray.  A
     modern edition contains the original illustrations with
     additions by Monsell.  Crowell.

     1855. Granny’s Story Box.  A collection.  Illustrated by J.
     Knight; published by Piper, Stephenson, and Spence.

     1856. Granny’s Wonderful Chair, containing Prince
     Fairy-foot
.  Written by Frances Browne, a blind Irish
     poetess.

     1863. Water Babies.  Charles Kingsley.  Sir Noel Patton.  The
     Macmillan Company.

     1865. Stories Told to a Child, including Fairy Tales; Mopsa
     the Fairy
, 1869.  By Jean Ingelow.

1865. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), with 42 illustrations by John Tenniel, published by Macmillan Company, Oxford.  First edition recalled.  Later editions were published by Richard Clay, London.

     1869. At the Back of the North Wind; The Princess and the
     Goblin
, 1871.  By George MacDonald.  Arthur Hughes.  Strahan. 
     Reprinted by Blackie.

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