A picture-book of merry tales.

Date:

1861.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH P611 B63 1861 LOCAL

Publisher:

D. Appleton and Co.

Physical Description:

viii, 272 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm

Notes:

Contains headpieces, tailpieces, and decorative initial letters. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

1861 D. Appleton imprint, printed in Lodon by Whittingham (Chiswick Press);[1st released, with color plates, in London by Bosworth and Harrison, in 1860]; includes 21 tales of Owlglass (Tyll Eulenspiegel) followed by various others including The Wee Bannock (Scottish 'gingerbread man' variant); design on spine and front and back covers blind stamped on brown cloth, front cover title and vignettes stamped in gold

Subjects:

Fools and jesters Juvenile fiction, Practical jokes Juvenile fiction, Deception Juvenile fiction, Honesty Juvenile fiction, Animals Juvenile fiction, Animals, Deception, Fools and jesters, Honesty, and Practical jokes

Genres/Forms:

Children's stories 1861, Gold stamped cloth (Binding) 1861, Satire 1861. rbgenr, Folk tales 1861. rbgenr, Fiction, and Juvenile works

Titles:

Eulenspiegel (Satire) Juvenile fiction and Eulenspiegel (Satire)