Notes
"According to Moorcock's introduction, the book was mainly written by Cawthorn, and it is notable for its heavy emphasis on early Fantasy, since only 24 of the 100 works discussed appeared after 1955."
--SFE3: "Cawthorn, James" by Peter Nicholls and Gary Westfahl
- Data from Internet Archive scan
- "First published in Great Britain by Xanadu Publications Ltf 1988"
- "First published in the United States of America by Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. 1988"
- No date other than year
- No printing line
- Publication date 1989-01-00, previously reported here, is from Locus presumably.
- Cover artist is co-author Cawthorn, from the Cawthorn list of works at SFE3.
- SFE3 implies that the introduction is by Moorcock alone, or that there is one introduction by each author. See the nonfiction title record.
- WorldCat (OCLC, below) reports Contents (100 reviews only) with listings such as this, which represent the titles/headings in the book:
• Gulliver's travels / by Jonathan Swift (1726)
• The castle of otranto / by Horace Walpole (1765)
Evidently the reviews are arranged by publication date.