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Fairy Tales

Wilhelm Hauff

First published 1910
Publisher Ernest Nister
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages 344
Price 7/6


11 stories {{tr|L. L. Weedon}} (Lucy L. Weedon, {{LCCN|no96009259}}; see WorldCat)

The selection from Hauff's three annual Märchen cycles omits the frame stories and three of the contained stories: "Die Geschichte von dem Gespensterschiff" and "Die Geschichte von der abgehauenen Hand" from the Caravan and "Der junge Engländer" from the Sheik of Alexandria, or the Palace.


Publication date (inferred) and price are from the earliest UK notices found: listing in "Christmas Books for the Children", The Graphic 1910-11-26, and review in The Scotsman -12-01 p4.

Half-title Hauff's Fairy Tales

frontispiece, illustrated title page Translated by L. L. Weedon Illustrated by Arthur A. Dixon London   Ernest Nister New York   E. P. Dutton & Co. (no date)

"List of Full-Page Illustrations", p[7], lists "Colour" (6) and "Black and White Illustrations" (12), which are the frontispiece and 17 full-page plates included in the pagination. There are many b/w illustrations amid the text.

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Fairy Tales 2024 Project Gutenberg eBook Collection 74947