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English Fairy Tales

Joseph Jacobs

First published October 1890
Type Collection
Series Fairy Tales of the British Empire #1

Notes

  • 44 tales "collected" by Jacobs, "illustrated" by Batten
  • One front page of the 1st ed. shows:   Ordinary Edition, 3000 copies printed October 1890; 5000 December 1890   Japanese Edition, 80 copies November 1890 (viewed at HathiTrust)
  • Jacob gives 1889 date in preface to More English Fairy Tales (1994): "It might naturally have been thought that my former volume (English Fairy Tales, Nutt, 1889) had almost exhausted the scanty remains of the traditional folk-tales of England."
  • Not "juvenile" in the 1st ed., and others that contain the "Preface, Notes, References, and Parallels"--quoting announcement of the 1895 cheap ed. that omits those sections, retains the illustrations. See the series record.

Publications (2)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1890 English Fairy Tales David Nutt Collection
July 2013 English Fairy Tales Heraklion Press Collection