Celtic Wonder-Tales

Overview:

  • Title: Celtic Wonder-Tales
  • Author: Ella Young
  • Year: 1910
  • Publisher: Maunsel & Company
  • Price: 3/6
  • Pages: viii+202
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Celtic Wonder-Tales
  • Notes:
    • 1st ed. Published in Dublin, Ireland, UK
    • Publ date (inferred) and price from publisher advert Irish Times 1910-12-16 p9 "Irish Books for Christmas. A Selection from Maunsel's List. Now Ready at All Booksellers."; and same-page listing in "Publications Received". (Reviewed next week -12-23 p9 "Irish Folk Tales", with The Kiltartan Wonder Book by Lady Gregory (Maunsel, 3/6). See Container Title. No other found 2018-03-08 in automated search of 1910 newspapers.)
    • The Internet Archive and HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) provide full views of one copy from U California (recommended, the second of 2 files "2027/uc2.ark [etc]") -- lacks original cover -- "Retold by Ella Young"; "Illustrated and Decorated by Maud Gonne" -- Contents, p.vii, lists 14 -- Illustrations, viii, lists 4 (full-page colour frontispiece and 3 plates not included in the pagination, facing the pages numbers below); "4 colour illustrations tipped-on to brown card-stock" per ABEbooks dealer below -- text spans p3-[202] Decorations include chapter headpieces and tailpieces and text-less pages between chapters. Some appear to illustrate content; for instance, compare pages 14, 15 (viewed as HDL 2027/uc2). -- last text page unnumbered p[202]; last printed page p[203] decoration is that of the 1909 chapbook front cover There are no blank pages except at front and back; all other textless pages are decorated such as p[203].
    • ABEbooks dealer Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB (Toronto, ON, Canada) offers two copies as of 2018-03-09, each with front/spine image. • "Original blue cloth, upper cover decorations and lettering in dark blue, gilt lettering to spine, presumed first binding state." (#18134) • "Original blue cloth, upper cover decorations and spine lettering in white, presumed second state binding." (#18135) The front illustration/decoration incorporates four white swans, and is similar in other respects to those by Gonne inside the book; and on those grounds attributed to her in this record.