Curious stories about fairies, and other funny people
Subtitle: with illustrations
By: by Billings
Contributors: Ruskin, John, 1819-1900; Horne, R. H. (Richard H.), 1802-1884; Carové, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1789-1852; Browning, Robert, 1812-1889; Andrew, John, 1815-1875, engraver; Ticknor and Fields; Thurston and Torry
Publisher: Ticknor and Fields
Published: 1856
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Copyright date: 1855
Subjects: Fairies; Children's poetry; Children's stories, German; Children's stories
Notes: Prose and verse.

Copyright 1855 by Ticknor and Fields.

"Cambridge: Thurston and Torry, printers"--T.p. verso.

Illustrations engraved on wood by John Andrew.

Hamilton, S. Amer. book illustrators (1968 ed.), 420.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) has 4 leaves of plates.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in half calf over marbled boards; full gilt spine, marbled endpapers.
Table of contents: title: The king of the golden river, or The black brothers / [by John Ruskin]; title: The heroic life and exploits of Siegfried the dragon-slayer (an old German story); title: The good-natured bear, a tale / by R.H. Horne; title: The story without an end / [by F.W. Carové] ; translated from the German by Sarah Austin; title: The glow-worm; title: Sir Calidore; title: The Pied Piper of Hamelin / by Robert Browning.