The Orange Fairy Book

First published in 1906, this volume in the coloured fairy-book series collects wonder tales from Europe, Africa, and other regions, retold in English for young readers. Typical pieces include stories of youngest sons, talking beasts, cruel stepmothers, and bargains with supernatural helpers; some come from Jutland, some from African tellers, some from older French and Spanish collections. There is no connecting frame and no single hero. The language is a uniform literary English rather than a scholarly transcript. The book is a mixed anthology of traditional narrative, not an original cycle.

Bound in orange cloth, cover blocked with a colour picture. Black slipcase.