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The Doyle Fairy Book

Anthony R. Montalba

First published 1890
Publisher Dean & Son
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages 582

  • 28 stories, same as the 1849 edition. WorldCat records show long heading/title: • The Doyle fairy book : consisting of twenty-nine [29] fairy tales (1890, {{OCLC|897799325}} --as eBook, unidentified "online resource" -most likelyHathitrust). • The Doyle fairy book : consisting of twenty-eight [28] fairy tales (1893, 4th, {{OCLC|63086339}}). The mis-count 29 is stated in the 1890 printing --according to a major critical review, The Athenaeum 3296 (1890-12-27) p883-84. The 1891 US ed. also mis-states 29.
  • "Translated from various languages by Anthony R. Montalba".
  • "With 30 illustrations by Richard Doyle". There were 24 in the original anthology, correctly stated. Here there are more than 30. {{OCLC|63086339}} notes, "35 leaves of plates are included in the pagination."
  • "A memoir of Doyle, and an introduction by a member of the Folk Lore Society".


Source for essay contents is the 582-page US edition (Stokes, 1891), viewed at HathiTrust: • "Introductory"; p26 closes "August, 1890   F. G. Green." • "Richard Doyle"; p45 closes "F. G. G." The publisher credits F. G. Green on the title page of the companion Dean's Fairy Book (1892, {{OCLC|173286678}}).

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Page Title Author(s) Type
15 Introduction (The Doyle Fairy Book) F. G. Green Essay
27 Richard Doyle F. G. Green Essay
49 Snow-White and Rosy-Red uncredited Short Story
66 The Two Misers uncredited Short Fiction
69 Prince of the Glow-Worms uncredited Short Fiction
109 Goldy uncredited Short Fiction
119 Prince Chaffinch uncredited Short Fiction
165 The Little Man in Grey uncredited Short Fiction
177 The Dragon-Giant and His Stone Steed uncredited Short Fiction
222 The Twelve Lost Princesses and the Wizard King uncredited Short Fiction
249 The Wolf and the Nightingale uncredited Short Fiction
285 The Enchanted Crow uncredited Short Fiction
292 The Lucky Days uncredited Short Fiction
297 Persevere and Prosper uncredited Short Fiction
303 Fortune's Favourite uncredited Short Story
342 The Prophetic Dream uncredited Short Fiction
357 The Golden Duck uncredited Short Story
380 The Glass Hatchet uncredited Short Fiction
401 The Courageous Flute-Player uncredited Short Fiction
409 The Serpent Prince uncredited Short Story
431 Eastward of the Sun, and Westward of the Moon uncredited Short Story
456 The Feast of the Dwarfs uncredited Short Fiction
478 The Three Dogs uncredited Short Fiction
492 Red, White, and Black uncredited Short Fiction
499 The Expeditious Frog uncredited Short Fiction
501 The Story of Siva and Madhava uncredited Short Story
521 The Goblin Bird uncredited Short Fiction
534 The Study of Magic Under Difficulties uncredited Short Fiction
553 Argilius and the Flame King uncredited Short Fiction
577 The Shepherd and the Serpent uncredited Short Fiction