page_title: Anthony R. Montalba
section_title: Fairy Tales from All Nations
hierarchical_section_title: Anthony R. Montalba / Fairy Tales from All Nations
caption_attribution_description: English: Front Piece of FairyTales of All Nations by Anthony Montalba
context_page_description: Anthony Rubens Montalba was a Swedish-born, naturalised British painter and the head of a family of renowned artists that based itself in Venice in the later part of the nineteenth-century. He may be known best as the editor of an 1849 story collection illustrated by Richard Doyle, Fairy Tales from All Nations.
context_section_description: Montalba edited Fairy Tales from All Nations, illustrated by Richard Doyle and published by Chapman & Hall in 1849.
  In the introduction to his book, Montalba declared that the folly of declaring fairy tales to be immoral had now been "cast off". Jack Zipes explains the Puritanical background and the flowering after 1840 in the introduction to his Victorian Fairy Tales anthology.
  The US publisher quoted a review in the British literary magazine The Athenaeum:
  "Mr Montalba has put a girdle round the earth, and brought home a sprite from most countries under the moon, to gambol upon our clean-swept hearths, in a Christmas night, or on our garden terraces when the midsummer sun is sinking, and there is scarce light enough left to read by. * * * Mr. Doyle's illustrations do their full part in making the book attractive.—London Athenaeum."
  (Harper & Brothers announced the US edition as forthcoming "In December", and it may have been published then, although dated 1850 on the title page.)
  A new edition of collection was published in 1872 under the title Famous Fairy Tales, or perhaps Famous Fairy Tales of All Nations, probably in four volumes. (Library of Congress catalogue records: LCCN 25-38579; LCCN 44-10249.)
caption: Title page of the US edition
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