• Publication: The Fairy Tales of George MacdonaldPublication Record # 614207
• Author: George MacDonald
• Date: 1904-00-00
• Publisher: A. C. Fifield
• Price:
  4/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 435
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • 1st ed. 5 vols in 1, as Arthur C. Fifield also published it in uniform vols 1 to 5 British Library record BL 002309872 reports that edition. See also the collection record.
  • WorldCat (OCLC, below) provides a list of Contents (8 stories only) and reports: -- "435 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm" -- edited by Greville Macdonald -- title page and 13 illustrations by Arthur Hughes
  • Price from brief review The Scotsman 1904-12-19 p3 "New Editions": "Mr. Arthur C. Fifield, London, has published ... the new edition cannot but do good if it brings them fresh popularity."
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 233650306

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  The Fairy Tales of George Macdonald • interior artwork by Arthur Hughes
• Preface (The Fairy Tales of George Macdonald) • essay by Greville MacDonald
• The Light Princess • juvenile • (1864) • novelette by George MacDonald
• The Giant's Heart • (1863) • novelette by George MacDonald
• The Golden Key • (1867) • novelette by George MacDonald
• The Shadows • (1864) • novelette by George MacDonald
• Little Daylight • (1871) • short story by George MacDonald
• Cross Purposes • (1862) • novelette by George MacDonald
• The Carasoyn • (1871) • novelette by George MacDonald
• The Day Boy and the Night Girl • (1879) • novelette by George MacDonald (variant of The History of Photogen and Nycteris: A Day and Night Mährchen)