The Doyle Fairy Book
| 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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