Notes: 3rd printing of US paperback ed. OCLC: "[16] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm" Cover image (file update only) from Amazon US 2017-05-30: [1] this ISBN and front cover as "Paperback – September 30, 1996" and "Farrar, Straus and Giroux" (The Noonday Press is an FSG imprint) [2] "Look Inside!" that shows: Copyright page (quote two lines): -- First Noonday Press paperback edition, 1996 -- Third printing, 1999 Acknowledgements, ends p.viii "Marina Warner // Kentish Town, 1994" Contents: -- Introduction, xv -- Part One: The Tellers (chapters 1 to 12) -- Part Two The Tales (ch 13 to 23) -- Conclusion, 409 -- Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; -- List of Plates and Picture Credits, 463 Introduction, p.xv-xxv Back cover: -- credits cover art (Fuseli) and design (Leslie Goldman) -- gives price US $17.00 (1999) Today's selection includes two historic illustrations: -- frontispiece is that from 1697 Perrault collection -- introduction follows frontispiece from 1400s Boccaccio The Decameron