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Title: English Fairy Tales Title Record # 2074718
Author: Joseph Jacobs
Date: 1890-00-00
Type: COLLECTION
Series: Fairy Tales of the British Empire
Series Number: 1
Language: English
Note:
  • 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.
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
English Fairy Tales 1890-10-00 Joseph Jacobs David Nutt     xiv+
253
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
English Fairy Tales 2013-07-28 Joseph Jacobs Heraklion Press 978-1-62921-890-8
$0.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Arthur Rackham  
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