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.

     1760.  All juvenile publications for sale in England. 
     Imported and sold by Hugh Gaine, New York.

1766. Children’s books.  Imported and sold by John Mein, a London bookseller who had a shop in Boston.  Included The Famous Tommy Thumb’s Story Book; Leo the Great Giant; Urax, or the Fair Wanderer; and The Cruel Giant, Barbarico.

     1787.  All Newbery’s publications.  Reprinted by Isaiah
     Thomas, Worcester, Mass.

     1794. Arabian Nights.  The Arabian Nights Entertainments
     ....  The first American edition....  Philadelphia, H. & P.
     Rice; Baltimore, J. Rice & Co., 1794. 2 vols.

1804. Blue Beard.  A New History of Blue Beard, written by Gaffer Black Beard, for the Amusement of Little Jack Black and his Pretty Sisters.  Philadelphia, J. Adams, 1804. 31 pp.

     1819. Rip Van Winkle.  A legend included in the works of
     Washington Irving, published in London, 1819.

1823. A Visit from St. Nicholas.  Clement Clark Moore, in Troy Sentinel, Dec. 23, 1823.  Written the year before for his own family.  The first really good American juvenile story, though in verse.

     1825. Babes in the Wood.  The history of the children of
     the wood....  To which is added an interesting account of the
     Captive Boy.  New York, N.B.  Holmes. 36 pp.  Plates.

1833. Mother Goose.  The only true Mother Goose Melodies; an exact reproduction of the text and illustrations of the original edition, published and copyrighted in Boston in 1833 by Munroe & Francis....  Boston, Lee & Shepard, 1905. 103 pp.
1836. The Fairy Book.  With eighty-one engravings on wood, by Joseph A. Adams.  New York, Harper & Bros. 1836. 301 pp.  Introduction by “John Smith.”  Edited by C.G.  Verplanck, probably.
1844. Fairy Land, and Other Sketches for Youths, by the author of Peter Parley’s Tales (Samuel G. Goodrich).  Boston, J. Munroe & Co. 167 pp.  Plates, Cromo.  Lith. of Bouve & Sharp, Boston.
1848. Rainbows for Children, by L. Maria Child, ed.  New York, C.S.  Francis & Co. 170 pp. 28 original sketches ... by S. Wallin....  B.F.  Childs, wood engraver:  p. 8.  Advertising pages:  New books published by C.S.  Francis & Co., N.Y.... The Fairy Gift and the Fairy Gem.  Four volumes of choice fairy tales.  Each illustrated with 200 fine engravings by French artists:  p. 2.

     1851. Wonder Book, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.  Illustrated by
     W. Crane, 60 designs, published by Houghton, 1910.

     1852. Legends of the Flowers, by Susan Pindar.  New York,
     D. Appleton & Co., 178 pp.

     1853. Fairy Tales and Legends of Many Nations, by Charles
     B. Burkhardt.  New York, Chas. Scribner. 277 pp.  Illustrated
     by W. Walcutt and J.H.  Cafferty.

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