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The Blue Moon

Laurence Housman

First published 1904
Publisher John Murray
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages vii+210
Price 6/-

    10 stories
  • Originally published with 9 full-page illustrations by the writer signed "LH", from wood-cuts engraved by his sister {{a|Clemence Housman}}, and with initial capitals (probably wood-cuts by Clemence).
  • "Amongst new fairy-books ... [this] is certain to win much admiration. Both pictures and stories are by Laurence Housman, and both are artistic and imaginative. The stories are original, and very poetic in feeling. In method and subject-matter they recall Hindu and Japanese fairy-lore rather than European legends." --listing in "Romances and Tales of Animal Life", The Saturday Review 1904-12-17 (Supplement, p. vii)

  • 1st ed.
  • Price from Saturday Review 1904-12-17 (See the collection record.)
  • HathiTrust Digital Library (catalog record) provides full view of two copies with original cover -- both cover images too dark to see clearly; illustration attributed to LH with support from the similar 1895 collection The House of Joy -- title page and predecessor heavily illustrated, signed LH -- t.p. states "engraved by Clemence Housman" -- List of Illustrations, p.vii, 9 plates not included in the pagination -- text spans p3-210; p210 footer "Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld.[sic], London and Aylesbury."

    Listed page numbers represent short story title pages, all of which are so numbered; all but the first and last are followed by one plate not included in the pagination, then by the narrative (first story illustrated facing the title page, last story not illustrated)

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Blue Moon 2002 Project Gutenberg eBook Collection 3527