The history of fairy tales in England is one of civil war between a stern army of moralists, who believed that imagination was a dangerous property, and a more kindly band of writers who were "of opinion that ... the History of the White Cat, the Hare and many Friends, and the Perambulations of a Mouse, will amuse and improve children as much, as an account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy, or an Abridgement of Lock on the Human Understanding"

(so wrote the author of Oriental tales, 1802). When the bitter winds of Puritanism and, later, of rationalism, blew over England, they sent the fairies underground and whisked their lore from nursery bookshelves, so that folk memory was only kept alive by chapbooks (intended for the poor and simple) and by word of mouth (in the kitchen and cottage). The forces of the moralists appeared to be triumphing, but subversion was active across the Channel, and successive invasions - which so often in the history of this country have enlarged and enriched our native culture - were to bring reinforcement to the friends of the fairies and, after some bitter fighting, eventual success.

The first notable invasion came from France, where fairies were in high favour in court and society. Ladies of fashion delighted in composing fairy tales, and chief among these story-tellers was the Comtesse d'Aulnoy, some of whose Contes des fées were translated into English in 1699 and others in 1707, so introducing 'The white cat', 'Graciosa and Percinet', 'Finetta the cinder-girl', 'The yellow dwarf' and other important persons into English homes.

At about the same time The Arabian nights entertainments were translated into English from the French of Antoine Galland and were very soon on the market in chapbook form, as well as in collections and periodicals, bringing delight to all who loved the marvellous.

Another foreign force landed here soon afterwards: in 1729 J. Pote and R. Montagu of London published Robert Samber's translation of Histoires ou Contes du temps passé. Avec des moralitez: eight folk tales which had been collected and written down by Charles Perrault and had been published in Paris thirty years earlier. Seven of these stories have become so much a part of English children's literature that their origin is seldom mentioned on the title-pages of 'The sleeping beauty', 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'Bluebeard', 'Puss in Boots', 'Diamonds and Toads', 'Cinderella', and 'Hop o' my Thumb' (or the less-well-known 'Riquet à la Houppe'). The most popular stories in both these collections of French fairy-tales soon achieved chapbook fame and - also very soon - incurred the severe disapproval of those educationists who preferred facts to fantasy.

In 1803 a correspondent signing herself 'O.P.' wrote to 'The Conductress of the Guardian of Education' (i.e. the redoubtable Mrs. Trimmer):

These strictures called forth the editor's approval of 'A Correspondent who appears to be so good a judge of what children ought and ought not to read', her own opinion being that fairy tales were 'full of romantic nonsense', a phrase she used in reviewing A collection of entertaining stories by Solomon Winlove (in the Guardian of Education, vol.II): and that they were 'only fit to fill the heads of children with confused notions of wonderful and supernatural events, brought about by the agency of imaginary beings' (review of Mother Bunch's fairy tales in the same volume). Writing censoriously of Perrault's Histories and tales of past times (also in vol.II), she warned that 'the terrific images, which tales of this nature present to the imagination, usually make deep impressions, and injure the tender minds of children, by exciting unreasonable and groundless fears.'

Now it was open war between the improvers and the entertainers, for, even as Mrs. Trimmer was using her considerable powers to rally to her side parents and teachers armed with moral tales and instructive works, her peace of mind was threatened by an opposing force of imaginative bookmen, led by a publisher, Benjamin Tabart (a man of mystery, who suddenly began publishing books for children about 1801 in New Bond Street and continued, at different addresses, until about 1820, when he disappeared, having assisted bravely in the production of much attractive literature for children). In 1804-05 he published not one, but 34 separate fairy-tale or folk-tale booklets, each one illustrated with three excellent hand-coloured engravings after W.M. Craig and Richard Corbould; or the whole collection could be had bound together in four volumes, entitled Tabart's popular stories. One of these engaging little books, The history of Whittington and his cat, is listed below, and this copy is of the 10th edition dated 1806.

Other respectable publishers brought out fairy tales in the following years, for instance, the two attractive booklets by B.A.T. listed below, and there was a constant supply of chapbooks, many of them worthy of a more dignified appellation, since they were sometimes very well printed, with delightful woodcuts. A contrast to these ephemeral booklets containing single fairy stories was The child's own book (1830), whose 566 pages provided splendidly comprehensive reading for a child - traditional fairy stories and legends, well-known and well-loved poems and nursery rhymes, and a great many illustrations. But before this appeared there had been a new development in the history of fairy tales: another foreign invasion, this time from Germany.

In 1823 C. Baldwyn, of London, published the first volume, and in 1826 James Robins of London, and Joseph Robins Jnr. of Dublin, published the second, of a translation by Edgar Taylor and others of the Kinder- und Haus-Märchen collected by the Brothers Grimm, with the English title, German popular stories; and the publisher commissioned George Cruikshank, one of the foremost book-illustrators of the time, to provide the plates. These picturesque but unsentimental, robust and often funny stories gave children's literature an infusion of down-to-earth humour which was sadly lacking at that time, and they have ever since provided inspiration for artists and book-designers.

The German tales had been collected, as the title-page says, 'from oral tradition' and, though the style of production, with the enchanting illustrations, made them eminently suitable for children, the accompanying notes showed for the first time that fairy tales were worthy of scholarly attention of research.

The last great invasion from overseas during the period covered by this catalogue came from Denmark. In 1829 Hans Christian Anderson had published (in Denmark) his very first fairy tale, included in a book of poetry, and in 1835 there appeared his booklet, Fairy tales, told for children, which contained 'The tinderbox', 'Little Claus and big Claus', 'The princess and the pea' and 'Little Ida's flowers'. The first three of these stories Andersen had heard as a child, but the fourth was original. In the two booklets which followed there were two more original stories, 'Inchelina' and the very well-known 'The little mermaid'. Booklets continued to appear, containing some original, some rewritten, stories; at first they only received a tepid welcome, but his fame grew, and in 1846 Mary Howitt translated the first selection into English (having first learnt Danish in order to do so). Two other translations appeared in the same year, by Caroline Peachey and by Charles Boner, and Hans Andersen's fairy tales had become part of our nursery literature.

As the years went by more translation from the folk-lore of other lands contributed greatly to the libraries of English children, but probably none of these stories - for instance, the collections edited by Andrew Lang - were so greatly loved or so well-known as the tales that had come down to us from our own traditional sources, or from the foreign allies who in early days had helped to win the battle for fairy tales against facts.

156. Robin Hood. THE CELEBRATED HISTORY OF THE RENOWNED ROBIN HOOD, captain of the merry outlaws of Sherwood Forest. Edinburgh: James Clarke & Co. High Street. (Price twopence.) [1820-30]

11.7 x 7.6 cm. Pr by James Clarke & Co. Pp. 31. Wood-engvd FP and TP vignette and text engvgs. Yellow pr paper covers, with list on lower v. of 25 titles of which this is no.10.

Stories about this very popular hero have been in print since the 15th century.

157. *VALENTINE AND ORSON. George Routledge & Sons. [c.1873]

One of Walter Crane's Toy Books, new series. This story has been known in England since the early 16th century.

Dick Whittington and his cat. This story was probably first narrated in the beginning of the 17th century.

158. Dick Whittington. THE HISTORY OF WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT. With three copper-plates. Tenth edition. London: Printed for Tabart and Co. at the Juvenile and School Library, No.157, New Bond-street, and to be had of all booksellers. Price sixpence. 1806.

12 x 8 cm. Pr by C. Squire, Furnival's-Inn-Court. Pp. 35 [36]. Hand-coloured engvd FP and two other hand-coloured engvgs, dated July 1804. Light brown pr stiff-paper covers, book-list on lower v.

This is one of Tabart's popular stories. See Introduction above.

159. Dick Whittington. HISTORY OF DICK WHITTINGTON. London; printed and sold by J.T. Wood, 278, Strand. [c.1845]

Cover-title. 10.9 x 6.7 cm. Pp. 8. Text wcts. Pr yellow paper covers, wct of a rose on the front.

Bound with 6 other titles by the same publisher.

160. *Dick Whittington. THE SLEEPING BEAUTY AND DICK WHITTINGTON AND

HIS CAT. Illustrated by R. Anning Bell. London, Published by J.M. Dent & Co. at Aldine House in Great Eastern Street. 1884.

The Banbury Cross Series prepared for children by Grace Rhys.

The sleeping beauty is listed under PERRAULT, C See no. 170.

161. *[LA MOTHE, MARIE CATHERINE, Comtesse d’AULNOY] Princess Belle Etiole.

Walter Crane’s Toy Books Shilling Series London and New York: George Routledge and Sons. [c 1875]

See Introduction above.

162. *[LA MOTHE, MARIE CATHERINE, Comtesse d’AULONOY] The yellow dwarf.

Walter Crane’s Toy Books Shilling Series London and New York: George Routledge and Sons. [c 1875]

One of Routledge’s New Sixpenny Toy Books. See Introduction above.

Arabian Nights entertainments. These Eastern tales were translated into French in the early 18^th century by Antoine Galland, and into English soon after, from his translation. See introduction above.

163 *Arabian Nights. TOWNSEND, GEORGE FYLER. The Arabian nights’ entertainments. A new edition, revised, with notes, by the Rev. Geo Fyler Townsend M.A. London: Frederick Warne and Co. and New York.

This version was first published in 1860.

164. *Arabian Nights. DIXON, E More fairy tales from the Arabian Nights edited and arranged by E. Dixon-Girton College-Cambridge-Illustrated by J.D. Batten London J.M. Dent & Co 69 Great Eastern Street 1895

165. *Arabian Nights. THE ARABIAN NIGHTS London: Richard Edward King, 88, Curtain Road, E.C.

166. * Arabian Nights. THE ARABIAN NIGHTS Illustrated by Charles Folkard. A & C. Black, Ltd. London. [1913]

PERRAULT, CHARLES. See Introduction above.

167. [PERRAULT, CHARLES] Cinderella. THE HISTORY OF CINDERELLA; or, The little glass slipper. Derby: Printed and published by Thomas Richardson, Friar Gate; and for Hurst, Chance and Co., 65 St. Pauls’s Church-Yard, London, 1828.

14.1 x 8.9 cm. Pp. 30. Wct TP vignette of a slipper and text wcts. Yellow pictorial stiff-paper covers, list of school books on lower v.

A well-printed book with excellent illustrations. See Introduction above for early-18^th-century criticism of this story.

168. * [PERRAULT, CHARLES] Cinderella retold by C.S. Evans and illustrated byArthur Rackham London: William Heinemann Philadelphia: JB. Lippencott Co. [1919]

The illustrations are in silhouette.

169. * [PERRAULT, CHARLES] Puss in Boots. Illustrated by Otto Speckter. New edition. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1856

First published with these illustrations in 1844

170 *[PERRAULT, CHARLES] The sleeping beauty and Dick Whittington and his cat Illustrated by R. Anning Bell. London Published by J.M. Dent & Co. at Aldine House in Great Eastern Street, 1894.

For the second story, see DICK WHITTINGTON, no 160.

171 *[PERRAULT, CHARLES] The sleeping beauty George Routledge & Sons [1875?]

One of Walter Crane’s Toy Books, New Series.

172. [PERRAULT, CHARLES] Toads and diamonds. Billing, Printer, 186, Bermondsey Street. One half penny. [c.1839]

Cover-title. 12.4 x 9.1 cm. Pp 10 (including front cover). Text wcts. Yellow pictorial paper covers.

A chapbook. This story was included in Perrault’s Histories or Tales of past times (see Introduction above) with the title " The Fairy".

173. *[PERRAULT, CHARLES] and [JOHNSON, RICHARD] Little Red Riding Hood & the history of Tom Thumb. Illustrated by H. Isabel Adams. Published by J.M. Dent & Co, Aldine House, Great Eastern St. London. 1895.

The Banbury Cross Series prepared for children by Grace Rhys.

The story of Tom Thumb was first printed in 1621 and is believed to have been written by Richard Johnson (1573-1659?).

174. JACK THE GIANT KILLER, by Richard Doyle London. Eyre and Spottiswoode. Great New Street, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C. [1888]

A facsimile of the MS which was written and illustrated by Richard Doyle (but not published) in 1842. Each page is illustrated in colour and the text is in facsimile handwriting. Osborne 1, 29.

Beauty and the beast was first published in English in 1756, as one of the stories in The Young misses magazine by Mme le Prince de Beaumont, no.214.

175. T., B.A. [Cobler! Stick to your last. Or The adventures of Joe Dobson, exhibited in sixteen elegant copper plate engravings. By B.A.T.J.Harris, Successor to E. Newbury…]

Imperfect, lacks cover-title and other leaves. 11.4 x 9 cm. 11(of 16) engvd leaves pr on one side only, each carrying an engvd verse above a hand coloured illustration. The first plate is dated Oct. 1807.

Joe and his wife agree to do each other’s work, but find they get on better doing their own. Moon 842. Osborne II, 612.

Jack and the beanstalk. A nonsensical version of this story is included in no. 232, but the tale as we know it was published by B. Tabart in 1807 as The history of Jack and the bean-stalk. In that same year John Harris published the metrical version by B.A.T listed below.

176. Jack and the beanstalk. T.,B.A. The history of Mother Twaddle, and the marvellous achievements of her son Jack, by B.A.T. London: Printed for J.Harris, corner of St. Paul’s Church Yard, April 25^th, 1807.

11.3 x 8.8 cm. 15 (of 16) engvd leaves pr on one side only. Each one except the TP having a hand-coloured engvd illustration. Lacks original covers.

Moon 843. Osborne1, 43.

177. *Jack and the beanstalk. TENNYSON, HALLAM. Jack and the bean-stalk English hexameters By Hallam Tennyson Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott London: Macmillan and Co. and New York 1886

Illustrated with ‘unfinished sketches’; Caldecott died in 1886. Osborne II, 665.

Grimm, the Brothers: see Introduction above

178. * GRIMM, JAKOB LUDWIG KARL and WILHELM KARL. The frog prince. London & New York: George Routledge and Sons. [c 1875]

One of Walter Crane’s Toy Books, shilling series. This is one of the stories in German popular tales by the Brothers Grimm (1823) – see Introduction above – but for its earlier history see The Classic Fairy Tales by Iona and Peter Opie, 1974.

179. * GRIMM, JAKOB LUDWIG KARL and WILHELM KARL. Little brother and little sister and other tales by the Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham Constable and Co. Ltd. London [1917]

180. THE HISTORY OF THE THREE HUNCHBACKS. Embellished with engravings on wood. Edinburgh. Printed for Oliver and Boyd, Tweedale-Court. Price twopence [c.1825]

11.9 x 7.7 cm. Pr by Oliver & Boyd, Pp. 31 Wct FP and TP illustration and text wcts. Green pictorial stiff-paper covers, book-list on lower v., 39 items, of which this is no. 31. The front cover is also numbered 31.

No 51 is another book in the same series, but the publisher’s address, as well as its number in the series, date it rather earlier.

181. THE CHILD’S OWN BOOK. Illustrated with nearly three hundred engravings. The sixth edition. 2 lines verse. London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, No.73, Bowdery and Kerby, Oxford Street: R. Griffin & Co., Glasgow; Tegg and Co., Dublin. MDCCCXXXIX [1839].

13.5 x 10.4 cm. Pr by Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars Pp viii + 566 + 2pp. book-list.

Engvd FP and TP vignette with legend. Text wcts. Purple cloth.

First published in 1830. See introduction above.

182. The Three bears. MURE, ELEANOR. The story of the three bears. Eleanor Mure, London, Oxford University Press. 1967. (2^nd TP): - The story of the three bears metrically related, with illustrations locating it at Cecil Lodge in September 1831 by Eleanor Mure.

(3^rd TP): - The celebrated nursery tale of the three bears put into verse and embellished with drawings for a birthday present to Horace Brooke Sept 26: 1831 [Facsimile]

12.2 x 15 cm. 16 leaves. Lithographed in Canada by Mirror Offset Company. 13 full-p. coloured plates. Red cloth, pictorial dust jacket.

Osborne 1,37 lists the original MS of which the above is a facsimile. It is believed to be the earliest written version of the story, but the author does not claim to have originated it; in fact:
‘The tale of the THREE BEARS
Little Horbrook declares
He perfectly well can rehearse;
But Aunt Nello will tell,
Pretty nearly as well,
The very same story in verse.’

The handwritten text is in verse and the heroine is an old woman.

183. [PAGET, FRANCIS EDWARD] The hope of the Katzekopfs; or, The sorrows of selfishness. A fairy tale. Third edition. London: J. Masters, Aldersgate St., and New Bond Street. 1849.

14.4 x 8.4 cm. Pr by Joseph Masters, Aldersgate Street. Pp. xviii + 210 [211] +4 pp. book-list and extra vi + 58 pp. book-list dated December 1854. Wct headpieces to chapters. Red cloth.

First published in 1844 under the pseudonym of ‘William Churne, of Staffordshire,’ Osborne II, 920.

In the Preface (to the 2^nd edition), signed ‘Frances E. Pager, Elford Rectory, September MDCCCXLVI’ the author claims to have made ‘An attempt, under the guise of a fairy-tale to lead young minds to a more wholesome train of thought than is commonly found at the present day in popular juvenile literature. The author’s aim was to excite the sympathies of the young on behalf of others, and to set before them in its true colours the hideous sin of selfishness to ascertain whether a race that has been gutted with Peter Parley, and Penny Magazines, and such like stories of (so called) useful knowledge, would condescend to read a fable and its moral, and learn wisdom from a tale of enchantment.’

(The author’s earlier pseudonym, noted above, is taken from a poem by Richard Corbet, ‘The fairies Farewell; or, God-Mercy Will’, 1647, lamenting the disappearance of the fairies, whose only remaining evidence is preserved in the noddle of William Churne of Staffordshire)

Andersen, Hans Christian. His fairy tales were first translated into English in 1846, see Introduction above.

184. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. Wonderful stories for children. By Hans Christian Andersen, author of "The Shoe of Fortune", &c. Translated from the Danish by Mary Howitt. With coloured illustrations. London: Chapman and Hall, 186 Strand. [After 1846]

16.6 x 11.8 cm. Pr by Vizetelly Brothers and Co., Peterborough Court, 135, Fleet Street. Pp [iii] + 127 [128]. Hand-coloured engvd FP + 2 other hand-coloured plates. Colour-pr boards.

Osborne 1, 17, 1846 (1st edition)

185. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. Tales and fairy stories, by Hans Christian Andersen. Translated by Madame de Chatelain. Illustrated by Henry Warren. London:Routledge, Warnes, & Routledge, Farringdon Street. 1859.

First published in 1852. Osborne 1, 17, 1858

186. ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. The Ice Maiden by Hans Christian Andersen. Translated from the Danish by Mrs. Busby. With drawings by Zwecker, engraved by Pearson London Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty 1863

Osborne 1, 17

187. *ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. Fairy tales and stories by Hans Christian Andersen. Translated by Dr. H.W. Dulcken With sixty illustrations by A.W. Bayes London George Routledge and Sons, Limited Broadway Ludgate Hill. New York: E.P. Dutton and Co. [Inscribed 1906]

First published 1864?

188. * (Another edition) with coloured FP and different binding.

189. *ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. Fairy stories for children. By Hans Christian Andersen. With illustrations. London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited [c.1880]

190. *ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. Quacks. The story of the ugly duckling after H.C. Andersen by Marion M. Wingrave. Authoress of Rhymes in "Afternoon Tea" & "May Blossom", "Tis first the good, and then the beautiful" Bonar. London: Ward, Lock and Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E C; New York: 10 Bond Street. [c. 1885]

191. *ANDERSON, HANS CHRISTIAN. Andersen’s tales. Selected, and translated from the Danish, for use in schools. London: George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, 1888

TP headed: Bell’s Reading Books.

192. *ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. The Little mermaid and other stories. By Hans Christian Andersen. Translated by R. Nisbet Bain. Illustrated by J.R. Weguelin London:

Lawrence and Bullen 16, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden MDCCCXCIII [1893].

Osborne II, 581

193 *ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. Fairy tales from Hans Christian Andersen. With coloured illustrations. London and Glasgow Collins’ Clear-Type Press [1900?]

194 *ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. The ugly duckling and other fairy tales by Hans C. Anderson [sic] Translated by Mrs Edgar [i.e. Alice] Lucas With coloured illustrations by Maxwell Armfield London: J.M. Dent & Sons Limited New York: E.P. Dutton and Company.

This version was first published in 1910.

195 *ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN. Hans Andersen’s fairy tales with illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. Boots the Chemists Branches everywhere [c. 1944]

The Heath Robinson Andersen was first published in 1913.

196. * DULCKEN, HENRY WILLIAM. Good old stories and fairy tales, told for the hundredth time. By H.W. Dulken, Ph.D. Illustrated with coloured and other pictures, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, from designs by eminent artists. London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, Warwick House, Paternoster Row.

First published in 1869.

197. * DULCKEN, HENRY WILLIAM. The old favourite fairy tales. Told for the hundredth time by H.W. Dulcken, Ph.D. Illustrated with coloured pictures and three hundred other illustrations by Hablot K Browne, Harrison Weir, T.B. Dalziel, W. Harvey, &c. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel London: Ward Lock & Co. Warwick House Dorset Buildings, Salisbury Square, E.C. [1880]

First published in 1858.

198. *HARTLAND, EDWIN SIDNEY. English fairy and other folk tales. Selected and edited, with an introduction, by Edwin Sidney Hartland. London: Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row.

The Camelot Series.

199. * JACOBS, JOSEPH. Celtic fairy Tales. Selected and edited by Joseph Jacobs, editor of "Folk Lore" Illustrated by John D. Batten London, David Nutt, 270 Strand. 1892

200. *LANG, ANDREW. The blue fairy book edited by Andrew Lang. With numerous illustrations by H.J.Ford and G.P. Jacomb Hood. Twenty-first impression. Longmans, Green, and Co. Ltd. 39 Paternoster Row, London E.C. 4 New York, Toronto, Bombay, Calcutta and Madras 1926. All Rights Reserved.

First Published in 1889.

201. *LANG, ANDREW. The book of romance edited by Andrew Lang. With numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford. Longmans Green and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London New York and Bombay 1902 All Rights Reserved.

202. *LANG, ANDREW. The green fairy book edited by Andrew Lang. With numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford. Fourth edition London Longmans, Green and Co. L and New York 1895. All Rights Reserved

First published in 1892.

203. *(Another edition) Tenth impression. Longmans, Green and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London . Fourth Avenue & 30^th Street, New York, Bombay, Calcutta and Madras 1914 All rights reserved.

204. * (Another edition) The Green fairy book by Andrew Lang, author of "The Yellow Fairy Book" "The Red Fairy Book" "The Blue Fairy Book" Etc. Etc. With numerous illustrations by H.J.Ford. New York. Hurst & Company, Publishers [20^th Century?]

205 *LANG, ANDREW. The grey fairy book edited by Andrew Lang. With numerous illustrations by H.J.Ford. New impression Longmans, Green and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London Fourth avenue and 30^th Street New York, Bombay, Calcutta and Madras 1919

All Rights Reserved

First published in 1900.

206. *LANG, ANDREW. The lilac fairy book edited by Andrew Lang. With 6 coloured plates and numerous illustrations by H.J.Ford New impression Longmans, Green and Co. 39 Paternoster row, London Fourth Avenue & 30^th Street, New York. Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras 1914 All Rights Reserved.

First published in 1910.

207. *LANG, ANDREW. Little Wildrose and other stories from the Crimson Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang. With a coloured frontispiece and numerous illustrations by Henry J. Ford. New impression Longmans, Green and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London New York and Bombay 1906 All Rights Reserved. The crimson fairy book was first published in 1903.

208. *LANG, ANDREW. The magician’s gifts and other stories from the Crimson, Green, and Brown Fairy Books edited by Andrew Lang. With a coloured frontispiece and numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford. Longmans, Green and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London. New York, Bombay, and Calcutta 1909. All Rights reserved.

209. *LANG, ANDREW. The orange fairy book edited by Andrew Lang. With eight coloured

plates and numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford. Longmans Green and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London. New York, Bombay 1906 All Rights reserved.

210. *LANG, ANDREW. The red romance book edited by Andrew Lang. With eight coloured

plates and numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford. Longmans Green and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London. New York, Bombay 1908 All Rights reserved.

First published in 1905.

211. *LANG, ANDREW. The violet fairy book edited by Andrew Lang. With numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford. New impression Longmans Green and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London. New York, Bombay 1902 All Rights reserved.

First published in 1901.

212. *MASON, JAMES. The old fairy tales. Collected and edited by James Mason. Illustrated by J. Moyr Smith. Thirty-ninth thousand. Cassell & Company, Limited. London, Paris and Melbourne [c.1890].