Curious stories about fairies, and other funny people : with illustrations

Austin, Sarah, 1793-1867, translator, Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. King of the golden river, or The black brothers, Horne, R. H. (Richard H.), 1802-1884. Good-natured bear, Carové, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1789-1852. Kinderleben, oder, Das Märchen ohne Ende. English, Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. Pied Piper of Hamelin, Billings, Hammatt, 1818-1874, illustrator, Andrew, John, 1815-1875, engraver, Ticknor and Fields, publisher, Thurston and Torry, printer · 1856 · Boston : Ticknor and Fields · 6 pictures

A Boston anthology of fairy tales and children's stories from 1856, translated and collected for young readers, with contributions from John Ruskin, R. H. Horne and Friedrich Carové. The four pictures are wood-engraved scenes in a sepia-toned, hatched style: a cloaked gnome-like figure at a door, a bear in a hat and cloak, a kneeling mother and child, and a helmeted knight facing a serpent. A designer could draw on their dark, crosshatched linework and warm brown paper tones for folk-tale or vintage storybook looks.

Children's stories · Fairies · Children's stories, German · Children's poetry

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