Please take a moment to enjoy the photos provided below. This particular edition of "Old Fashioned Fairy Tales" is one of the most coveted and highly collectable for the serious fairy tales enthusiast. It includes so many of the most famous fairy tales including; Little Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, The Yellow Dwarf, Puss in Boots and so many more. The lovely chromolithograph full color plates just pop, and it was difficult to choose from the 28 included here because there are so many and each one is more beautiful than the next. This is a very high quality publication by DeWolfe Fiske of Boston who was known for gorgeous publications. The book here has thicker paper and also includes so many sweet black & white vignettes as well. This one would make a wonderful addition to your antique fairy tales library and should not be missed.

Excerpt from Introduction:

"The stories in this book are borrowed from many countries; some are French, some German, some Russian, some Italian, some Scottish, some English. However much these nations differ about trifles, they all agree in liking fairy tales. The reason, no doubt, is that men were much like children in their minds long ago, long, long ago, and so before they took to writing newspapers, and sermons, and novels, and long poems, they told each other stories, such as you read in the fairy books. They believed that witches could turn people into beasts, that beasts could speak, that magic rings could make their owners invisible, and all the other wonders in the stories. Then, as the world became grown up, the fairy tales which were not written down would have been quite forgotten but that the old grannies remembered them and told them to the little grandchildren; and when they, in their turn, because grannies, they remembered them, and told them also, In this way these tales are older than reading and writing, far older than printing. The oldest fairy tales ever written down were written down in Egypt, about Joseph's time, nearly three thousand five hundred years ago. Other fairy stories Homer knew, in Greece, nearly three thousand years ago, and he made them all up into a poem, the Odyssey, which I hope you will read some day. Here you fill the witch who turns men into swine, the man who bores out the big foolish giant's eye, and the cap of darkness, and the shoes of swiftness, that were worn later by Jack, the Giant-Killer. These fairy tales are the oldest stories in the world, and as they were first made by men who were childlike, for their own amusement, so they amuse children still, and also grown-up people who have not forgotten how they once were children..."

CONTENTS:

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

THE WHITE CAT

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD

CINDERELLA

GRACIOSA AND PERCINET

BLUE BEARD

RAPUNZEL

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK

BEAUTY AND TH EBEAST

THE YELOW DWARD

PUSS IN BOOTS

THE HISTORY OF TOM THUMB

THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM

SNOWDROP

THE FLYING TRUNK

THE FAIR WITH GOLDEN HAIR

ALADDIN AND HIS WONDERFUL LAMP

MOTHER HULDA

THE WILD SWAN

THE DRAGON AND HIS GRANDMOTHER

JACK THE GIANT-KILLER

RUMPPELSTILTZKIN

TTHE FALSE BRIDE

HOP-O'-MY-THUMB

ALI BABA OR THE FORTY THIEVES

THE DEATH OF THE SUN-HERO

THE THREE BEARS

THE GOLDEN GOOSE

FLORINDA AND YORINGAL

PRINCE CHERRY

THE QUEEN-BEE

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