xi, 250 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cm.
General Note
The printer is named at the foot of page 251: `Printed by T. and A. Constable, printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press.'
With 12 tipped in colour plates, 43 black and white illustrations.
Contents
Little brother and little sister -- Snow-White and Rose-Red -- Sweet porridge -- Thumbling’s travels -- The skilful hunter -- The true sweetheart -- The twelve brothers -- The three spinners -- The start-money -- The old woman in the wood -- Bearskin -- One-eye, Two-eyes, three-eyes -- The wishing-table, the gold-ass, and the cudgel in the knapsack -- The wonderful musician -- The cunning little tailor -- The gnomes -- Hans the hedgehog -- The nose tree -- The tree feathers -- The goose-girl at the well -- The little people’s presents -- The three little men in the wood -- The spirit in the bottle -- The three army surgeons -- The hard and the hedgehog -- The griffin -- The spindle, the shuttle, and the needle -- Maid Maleen -- The young giant -- The three sons of fortune -- Fitcher’s bird -- The poor miller’s boy and the cat -- How six men got on in the world -- The two travellers -- The hut in the forest -- The peasant’s wise daughter -- The two brothers -- The nix of the mill-pond -- The fox and the geese -- The iron stove
Provenance
With the book-plate of Dorothy Fildes
Binding Note
Original green cloth boards, with gilt title and vignettes to upper board and spine.