Fairy tales from the British Isles

by Amabel Williams-Ellis

Other authorsPauline Diana Baynes (Illustrator)
Hardcover, 1966

Status

Available

Call number

823.91

Publication

Frederick Warne & Co., Inc. (1966), Edition: Reprint, 344 pages

Language

Physical description

344 p.; 8.4 inches

ISBN

1131221354 / 9781131221359

Local notes

A collection of tales based on British fairy tales and legends.

• Fifty red night-caps
• Tom Tit Tot
• The wee, wee Mannie
• The king, the saint and the goose
• Teeny-tiny
• Happy Boz'll
• Johnny-cake
• The three little pigs
• The changeling
• Kate Crackernuts
• Clever oonagh
• The well of the world's end
• The good old man
• The hairy boggart
• The false knight
• The black bull of Norroway
• Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar
• The baker's daughter
• The king of the cats
• The cauld lad of Hilton
• A spadeful of earth
• Cap o' rushes
• Hardy hardback
• The strange visitor
• The field of Boliauns
• The fairy child
• Mr. Miacca
• The secret room
• White-faced simminy
• Jack and the beanstalk
• The Bear in the Coach
• Pengersec and the Witch of Fraddom
• Mrs Mag and her Nest
• The Magician and his pupil
• The head of brass
• Childe Rowlande
• Sir Gammer ans
• Old Bluebeard
• The giants of Towednack
• Three Sillies
• The Lake Lady
• Tamlane
• Finlay the Hunter
• 'Water's Locked!'
• The Devil and the Tailor
• The Red Ettin
• The Midnight Hunt
• The Laidly Worm of Spindlestone Heugh
• A Mouse from the Mabinogian

A lovely little volume. Illustrated endapapers and a red witch on blue boards under the dust jacket. Lots of b&w line drawings as well as 8 colour illustrations and some red spot colour in the title pages.

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