Fairy Tales from All Nations

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).