Folk Tales of the British Isles

This anthology, compiled by Kevin Crossley-Holland, gathers folk narratives from England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. The tales are grouped by kind - fairies, ghosts, animals, heroes, and stories of enchantment - rather than by a single region. Sources include older printed collections and oral tradition: trickster plots, bargains with the otherworld, haunted roads, and comic village tales sit beside darker legends. Brief notes point to origins without turning the book into a scholarly edition. It is a reader's collection of popular story, meant to show the range of British and Irish folk narrative rather than to reconstruct any one local repertoire.

Bound in blue cloth with inset colour picture and gilt embellishments on cover. Blue slipcase.