The Yellow Fairy Book

First published in 1894, this volume in Andrew Lang's coloured fairy-book series gathers wonder tales from French, German, Russian, Hungarian, and other sources, retold in English for family reading. Typical pieces follow youngest children, animal helpers, cruel stepmothers, and quests set by witches or kings; some come from Andersen, some from the Grimms, some from less familiar collections. There is no frame narrator and no single hero. The language is uniform literary English rather than dialect transcript. The book is a miscellaneous anthology of traditional narrative, not an original novel.

Bound in green, black, gold and silver image blocked yellow cloth. Green slipcase.