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A gift from fairy land. Tales and legends. One hundred fanciful embellishments.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC8 P2822 840g
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Paulding, James Kirke, 1778-1860.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairy tales.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Duncan, Muriel (bookplate)
- Nightingale, Maria A. J. (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered leaves, vi, 174 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Other Title:
- Christmas gift from fairy land
- Place of Publication:
- London : Charles Tilt, 1840.
- Contents:
- Florella, or, the fairy of the rainbow
- The philosopher and the fairy ring
- The hunchback and beauty
- The nameless old woman
- The fairy experiment.
- Notes:
- Added title page and illus. engraved after designs by John G. Chapman.
- "London: Bradbury and Evans, Printers to the Queen, Whitefriars."--T.p. verso.
- Preface signed: Sampson Fairlamb.
- Also published under title: A Christmas gift from fairy land, 1838.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Muriel Duncan.
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Maria A.J. Nightingale, January 25, 1867.
- Culture Class Collection copy has drawing on p. [176].
- OCLC:
- 12230806
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