All-Fellows: Seven Legends of Lower Redemption with Insets in Verse

• Short-fiction for adults ''All-Fellows'' and ''The Cloak of Friendship'' "comprise a set of Christian Fantasies which ironize the woeful lives of their protagonists, who tend to gain Redemption by supernatural means, but too late." --SFE: Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)
• 7 "vaguely Christian legends" (quote): few will find in the legends themselves, or in the 'insets in verse' which divide and do not elucidate them, half the merit of the [7] illustrations. These are all remarkably executed and fascinating in their mediaeval grimness, which is neither crude nor forced" --review in "Books of the Week" (belated) Manchester Guardian 1896-12-29 p6

1st ed. Price and publ date from advertisements by the publisher 1896-10-24 "In press" and -10-31 "Immediately" -- "Title-Page and Cover specially designed by the Author" -- "Imperial 16mo, 6s."

HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover -- cover green cloth, gold stamped design, no lettering -- title page, red design, shows at once "London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., Limited, Paternoster House, Charing Cross Road" -- Preface, p.vii-viii, apology for the treatment of sacred material -- illustrations apparently one for each story, b/w plates not included in the pagination, between half-title page and text -- text (8 insets in verse, 7 stories) spans p1-[138]; p138 footer "Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. // London & Edinburgh" -- 6-page "By the Same Author" follows the text, as p1-6: excerpts from reviews and notices of Housman's 1895 and 1896 fairy tale collections

The page numbers given here represent unnumbered half-title pages of the stories. Each half-title leaf follows multiple numbered pages of untitled verse and is followed by a one-side plate with full-page b/w illustration, then the narrative. For instance, the third verse spans p34-36, the third narrative p39-53.