The Allies' fairy book
By: with an introduction by Edmund Gosse and illustrations by Arthur Rackham
Contributors: Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: William Heinemann; Lippincott
Published: 1916
Place of publication: London; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: Folklore; Fairy tales; Dragons; Juvenile fiction
Description: Thirteen fairy tales from a variety of countries including Japan, Yugoslavia, Portugal, and Belgium.
Notes: Title vignette. Head and tail pieces.

Introduction dated Aug. 1916.

"This edition is limited to five hundred and twenty-five copies of which five hundred are for sale." Signed by Arthur Rackham.

"Printed at the Complete Press, West Norwood, London."--Colophon.

Rare Book copy 1: No. 31.

Rare Book copy 2: No. 420.

Gift; Mr. & Mrs. Alfred C. & Madeleine Berol.

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

In publisher's blue cloth binding with lettering and ornamentation stamped in gilt; illustrated endpapers; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed.

Rare Book copy 2: In slipcase covered in marbled paper and tipped with blue leather, with cutout for title.
Table of contents: title: Jack the Giant-killer (English) --; title: The battle of the birds (Scottish) --; title: Lludd and Llevelys (Welsh) --; title: Guleesh (Irish) --; title: The sleeping beauty (French) --; title: Cesarino and the dragon (Italian) --; title: What came of picking flowers (Portuguese) --; title: The adventures of Little Peachling (Japanese) --; title: The fox's wedding (Japanese) --; title: The tongue-cut sparrow (Japanese) --; title: Frost (Russian) --; title: The golden apple-tree and the nine peahens (Serbian) --; title: The last adventure of Thyl Ulenspiegel (Belgian).