"The present collection supplements his previous volumes, Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland [1890] and Hero-Tales of Ireland [1894]."
(dates from Wikipedia; typography revised)
--"Little, Brown, & Co.'s Spring Announcements", The Book Buyer 1895-04-01, p. 186
- 1st ed., simultaneous with the US or nearly so
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Format and price from listing as "Just Out" in publisher advertisement, The Academy #1200 (1895-05-04) p387; also "Mr. David Nutt's List", The Athenaeum #3524 (1895-05-11) p592:
"Crown 8vo, 212 pages, cloth, uncut, 3s. 6d."
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HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of 3 copies including one from Cornell U with original front cover:
-- cover title, Tales of the Irish Fairies
-- Preface, p[v]-ix, closes "Alfred Nutt"
-- Contents, [xi]-xii, lists one introductory and 30 presumable tales (manual count)
-- text spans p1-198
The introductory "Tales of the Fairies" closes, p5:
: "After some preliminary conversation, the blind man began as follows:"
Page 198 closes:
: "Note--The tales from p. 156 to the end were told by Dyeermud Sheehy, a cartman for years between Killarney and Cahirciveen." (That is 4 of 30 tales, relying on the listed Contents.)
There is no analogous note, pages 155/56.