Fairy Tales from All Nations
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Overview:
- Title: Fairy Tales from All Nations
- Author: Anthony R. Montalba
- Year: 1850
- Publisher: Harper & Brothers
- Price: $0.70
- Pages: 360
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Anthology
- Title Reference: Fairy Tales from All Nations
- Notes:
- 1st US ed. Published early December 1849, title page dated 1850.
- Title page image viewed 2018-09-24 at Wikipedia, "Anthony R. Montalba" (see the author record).
- Publication date and price from publisher advertisement "Harper & Brothers: publish this week" (one of three), The Literary World (New York) 5.149 (1849-12-08) p501: "Square 8vo. Paper, 70 cents ; Muslin gilt, 871/2 cents ; Muslin, gilt edges, $1.00."
- HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of 2 copies without original cover:
-- Preface, p9-10 (an essay; see the anthology record)
-- Contents, 11-12, lists 29 ("The Birth of the Fairy Tale", a story, plus 28 stories identified by language and usually by author)
-- text spans p13-[360], final page unnumbered
The full-page illustrations are a frontispiece and 10 plates included in the pagination. All illustrations are black-and-white, from drawings by Doyle, engraved (see the 1st ed. and interior art records). Some of those in the copy from Harvard U are colored by a user (see page 358 for instance, and a useful point of entry).