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Fairy Tales - Classic Genre

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Books in the Fairy Tales - Classic genre:

Histories, or Tales of Past Times (1729)

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This is the first English translation of Charles Perrault's collection of fairy tales, containing: The Little Red Riding Hood The Fairy (Diamonds and Toads) The Blue Beard The Sleeping Beauty (in the Wood) The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots Cinderilla... View More

Author(s): Charles Perrault
Illustrator(s): Anonymous

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German Popular Stories Translated from the Kinder und Haus Märchen Volume I (1823)

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This is the first volume of Grimms’ tales to be translated into English. The title page above is from the third edition. The scan is from a facsimile published in 1904 which is actually from the second issue as there are dots over the "ä" ... View More

Author(s): Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank

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German Popular Stories Volume II (1826)

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This second collection from Grimm includes a few tales from other sources. There is no list of tales but it begins with The Goose Girl and ends with The Juniper Tree. The image above is from a facsimile printed in 1904. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank

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Gammer Grethel or German Fairy Tales and Popular Stories (1839)

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This was the third edition of the Edgar Taylor translation of Grimm. It dispensed with the academic apparatus and included additional illustrations by Ludwig Grimm.... View More

Author(s): Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank
Ludwig Grimm

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The Traditional Faëry Tales (1845)

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Includes Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast, and Jack and the Bean Stalk. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): Charles West Cope
John Callcott Horsley
Thomas Webster

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Danish Fairy Legends and Tales (1846)

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This is the first English edition of any of Andersen’s tales and includes fourteen, among which are The Wild Swans, The Ugly Duckling, and The Little Mermaid. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrator(s): None

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The Fairy Ring (1846)

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Newly-translated tales from the collection of the Brothers Grimm. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle

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German Fairy Tales and Popular Stories as Told by Gammer Grethel (1846)

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This is a retitled version of the third edition of the Edgar Taylor translation of Grimm. It dispensed with the academic apparatus and included additional illustrations by Ludwig Grimm. The image above is from a later printing. Read online at Hathitr... View More

Author(s): Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank
Ludwig Grimm

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The Fairy Ring (1847)

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Newly translated tales from the collection of the Brothers Grimm. This is the expanded second edition.

Author(s): Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle

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Fairy Tales from All Nations (1849)

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A newly translated collection of twenty-eight fairy tales “carefully chosen from more than a hundred volumes of the fairy lore of all nations.” The third and fourth editions of 1890 and 1893 contain up to twelve additional illustrations t... View More

Author(s): Anthony R. Montalba
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle

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Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales of England (1849)

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One of the first compilations of English nursery rhymes and tales. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): James Orchard Halliwell
Illustrator(s): None

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The Story of Jack and The Giants (1851)

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This is a newly illustrated version of the famous story of Jack the Giant Killer. Read for free online at HathiTrust, or at the University of Florida, or at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Richard Doyle
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle

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Danish Fairy Legends and Tales (1852)

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This is the second, enlarged, edition which includes a total of 45 stories.

Author(s): Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrator(s): Anonymous

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Household Stories Collected by the Brothers Grimm (1853)

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This edition was published in two volumes. Read online at Internet Archive: Volume 1 and Volume 2.... View More

Author(s): Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s): Edward Henry Wehnert

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Home Stories Collected by the Brothers Grimm (1855)

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An early translation of the Grimm stories. Read online at Google Books.

Author(s): Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s): John Leighton
George Thompson

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Stray Leaves from Fairy Land (1856)

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An American edition of the Taylor translation of Grimm.

Author(s): Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s): no first name Snyder
Van Ingen

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The Fairy Ring (1857)

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Newly translated tales from the collection of the Brothers Grimm. This is the third edition. Read online at Google Books.... View More

Author(s): Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle

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Danish Fairy Legends and Tales (1861)

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This is the third, much enlarged, edition which includes a total of fifty-seven stories. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrator(s): Vilhelm Pedersen
Various

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Household Tales and Popular Stories (1862)

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This selection of the tales and stories was also published under the title Grimm’s Fairy Tales and Other Popular Stories. Read online at Google Books.... View More

Author(s): Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s): Bertall

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An Old Fairy Tale Told Anew (1865)

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A verse rendering of The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): James R. Planché
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle

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