1893; expanded 1902
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"a miscellany of tales, Fables and sketches showing the relationship between humankind and the Fairies"
(underscore represents linked cross-reference)
--SFE: Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), biographical entry by Mike Ashley
Wikipedia does not cover the work, except as a listing in its Yeats bibliography, noted as "poetry and nonfiction" (May 2020).
- Image here shows the second state binding, in which the publisher's name is shown in mixed capitals and lower-cases. (Presumably, this means that the first state binding had them in all upper-case.)
- Book is twelvemo, with a frontispiece by J. B. Yeats.
- Data from Heritage Auctions and from WorldCat.
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Library of Congress (LCCN, below) reports page count xxi+212.
Evidently that is a typo. British Library and WorldCat (BL and OCLC) report xii and the US edition (Macmillan, 1894) with identical arabic page count, printed in the UK, is xii+212.
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WorldCat records (OCLC, below) list the Contents, apparently as 22 prose items between 3 opening/closing poems. Each notes more about the Contents:
• 2272068, "A good portion of this book has been printed in The National Observer."--Page [vi].
• 459185168, French language information in-line
