Notes
WorldCat library records of the 1863 edition show (quote 2 cited here):
-- heading The fairy book : the best popular fairy stories selected and rendered anew
-- Responsibility: by the author of "John Halifax, gentleman."
and
-- heading Fairy book : the best popular stories
-- Responsibility: selected and rendered anew by the author of John Halifax, gentleman.
- The title page lists the author only as The author of 'John Halifax, Gentleman'.
- Some of the fairy tales may be non-genre.
- Includes 8 pages of publisher's advertisements at the end, not included in the page count.
- Engraved by C.H. Jeens after Joseph Noel Paton. Wood engravings.
- Data from Abebooks and from WorldCat, {{OCLC|905321818}}. The earliest edition for which WorldCat has the table of contents is {{OCLC|437266893}} (1890's). Contents verification and primary verification from Google Books. (The auto-generated table of contents in Google Books is missing 4 of the tales.)