The Pink Fairy Book

First published in 1897, this volume in the coloured fairy-book series gathers wonder tales from Japan, Sicily, Scandinavia, and other sources, retold in English for family reading. Typical pieces involve youngest children, shape-changers, animal brides or helpers, and tests set by witches or kings. The stories are independent; there is no frame narrator and no single hero. The language is a uniform literary English rather than a scholarly transcript of each teller. The book is a miscellaneous anthology of traditional narrative, not an original novel.

Bound in pink cloth, cover blocked with a colour design by Debra McFarlane. Page tops stained pink. Pink endleaves. Dark pink slipcase.