The Blue Fairy Book
| First published | 1889 |
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| Series | Coloured Fairy Books #1 |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green and Co. |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Type | Anthology |
| Pages | viii+390 |
| Price | 6/- |
37 stories
Author and translator credits: see the 1st ed. for some detail notes.
Wikipedia lists 37 titles and notes "a wide range of tales, with seven from the Brothers Grimm, five from Madame d'Aulnoy, three from the Arabian Nights, and four Norwegian fairytales, among other sources. The Blue Fairy Book was the first volume in the series, and so it contains some of the best known tales ..."
"Thirty-five fairy tales from the folklore of England and the Continent, including The Princess on the Glass Hill, Snow-White and Rose-Red, Beauty and the Beast, Why the Sea is Salt, and The Yellow Dwarf"
--1959 Library of Congress record {{LCCN|59-13481}}, WorldCat {{OCLC|1161998}}
For the 1889 and 1921 publications we list 37 stories with page numbers, and cite images viewed at HathiTrust and Internet Archive.
Some later editions may omit some stories, without change of the anthology title or notice in readily available library and bookseller data.
- Price from Wikipedia, "The Langs' Fairy Books", this volume only: "The first edition consisted of 5,000 copies, which sold for 6 shillings each."
- Data from HathiTrust scan.
- Interior artist credit per title page.
- Listed in a footnote at the end of the story. Where footnotes are present, the credit is from the footnote.
- Listed as the author and translator in the preface. Where footnotes are not present, the credit is from the preface.
- "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" is listed as "condensed" by Miss {{a|Violet Hunt}}, and has been credited to her as an adaptation of the original.
- "A Voyage to Lilliput" is listed as "condensed" by Miss {{a|May Kenall}}, and has been credited to her as well as Swift as an adaptation of the original.
- "Prince Darling" is from Cabinet des fées
- "The Black Bull of Norroway" and "The Red Etin" are from Popular Traditions of Scotland
- Miss {{a|Minnie Wright}} translated the works from Cabinet des fées, Madame d'Aulnoy, and "The Bronze Ring"
- Miss {{a|May Sellar}} translated Grimm's stories.
- Mrs. {{a|Alfred Hunt}} translated Asbjornsen & Moe's stories.
- {{a|Comtesse d'Aulnoy}} is credited as both Madame d'Aulnoy and Madame la Comtesse d'Aulnoy
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| Title | Year | Publisher | Format | Type | Catalog ID | Cover Artist | Pages | |
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1921 | David McKay | Hardcover | Anthology | Frank Godwin | 303 | |
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1959 | Epstein & Carroll | Hardcover | Anthology | 445 | ||
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1972 | Airmont Books | Paperback | Anthology | CL196 | 383 | |
| The Blue Fairy Book | 2003 | The Folio Society | Hardcover | Anthology | Charles van Sandwyk | 400 | ||
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2007 | LibriVox | digital audio download | Anthology | H. J. Ford | ||
| The Blue Fairy Book | 2009 | Project Gutenberg | eBook | Anthology | 503 | |||
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2012 | Dover Publications | eBook | Anthology | |||
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2012 | Wildside Press | Trade Paperback | Anthology | 416 | ||
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2013 | 1st World Publishing | Hardcover | Anthology | 420 | ||
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2013 | 1st World Publishing | Trade Paperback | Anthology | 420 | ||
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2013 | Heraklion Press | eBook | Anthology | |||
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2013 | Hesperus Press | eBook | Anthology | |||
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2013 | Hesperus Press | Hardcover | Anthology | 373 | ||
| The Blue Fairy Book: A Large Collection |
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2014 | Start Publishing | eBook | Anthology | |||
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2017 | Barnes & Noble Books | Hardcover | Anthology | Vartan Ter-Avanesyan | 332 | |
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2017 | Open Road Integrated Media | eBook | Anthology | |||
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2018 | Racehorse for Young Readers | Hardcover | Anthology | 384 |