Chapter 5

1747-1840. _Forgotten Books of the American Nursery, A History of the Development of the American Story-Book_. Halsey, Rosalie V. Boston, C.E. Goodspeed & Co., 1911. 244 pp.

1785-1788. _Isaiah Thomas, Printer, Writer, and Collector. Nichols, Charles L_. A paper read April 12, 1911, before the Club of Odd Volumes.... Boston. Printed for the Club of Odd Volumes, 1912. 144 pp. List of juveniles 1787-88: pp. 132-33.

1785. _Mother Goose_. The original Mother Goose's melody, as first issued by John Newbery, of London, about A.D. 1760. Reproduced in facsimile from the edition as reprinted by Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester, Mass., A.D. 1785 (about) ... Albany, J. Munsell's Sons, 1889. 28 pp.

1787. _Banbury Chap-Books and Nursery Toy-Book Literature_ (of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries) ... Pearson, Edwin. With very much that is interesting and valuable appertaining to the early typography of children's books relating to Great Britain and America.... London, A. Reader, 1890: 116 pp. Impressions from wood-cut blocks by T. and J. Bewick, Cruikshank, Craig, Lee, Austin, and others.

1789. _The Olden Time Series_. Gleanings chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and Salem, Mass. Brooks, Henry M., _comp_. Boston, Ticknor & Co., 1886. 6 vols. _The Books that Children Read in 1798_ ... by T.C. Cushing: vol. 6, pp. 62-63.

1800-1825. Goodrich, S.G. _Recollections of a Lifetime_. New York, Miller, Orton, and Mulligan, 1856. 2 vols. Children's books (1800-1825): vol. 1, pp. 164-74.

1686. _The History of Tom Thumb_. John Dunton, Boston.

1728. _Chap-Books_. Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia.

1730. _Small Histories_. Andrew Bradford, Philadelphia. These included _Tom Thumb_, _Tom Hickathrift_, and _Dick Whittington_.

1744. _The Child's New Plaything_. Draper & Edwards, Boston. Reprint. Contained alphabet in rhyme, proverbs, fables, and stories: _St. George and the Dragon_; _Fortunatus_; _Guy of Warwick_; _Brother and Sister_; _Reynard the Fox_; and _The Wolf and the Kids_.

1750. John Newbery's books. Advertised in Philadelphia _Gazette_. The _Pretty Book for Children_ probably included _Cinderella_, _Tom Thumb_, etc.

1760. All juvenile publications for sale in England. Imported and sold by Hugh Gaine, New York.

1766. _Children's books_. Imported and sold by John Mein, a London bookseller who had a shop in Boston. Included _The Famous Tommy Thumb's Story Book_; _Leo the Great Giant_; _Urax, or the Fair Wanderer_; and _The Cruel Giant, Barbarico_.

1787. All Newbery's publications. Reprinted by Isaiah Thomas, Worcester, Mass.

1794. _Arabian Nights. The Arabian Nights Entertainments_ .... The first American edition.... Philadelphia, H. & P. Rice; Baltimore, J. Rice & Co., 1794. 2 vols.

1804. _Blue Beard. A New History of Blue Beard, written by Gaffer Black Beard, for the Amusement of Little Jack Black and his Pretty Sisters_. Philadelphia, J. Adams, 1804. 31 pp.

1819. _Rip Van Winkle_. A legend included in the works of Washington Irving, published in London, 1819.

1823. _A Visit from St. Nicholas_. Clement Clark Moore, in Troy _Sentinel_, Dec. 23, 1823. Written the year before for his own family. The first really good American juvenile story, though in verse.

1825. _Babes in the Wood_. The history of the children of the wood.... To which is added an interesting account of the Captive Boy. New York, N.B. Holmes. 36 pp. Plates.

1833. _Mother Goose_. The only true Mother Goose Melodies; an exact reproduction of the text and illustrations of the original edition, published and copyrighted in Boston in 1833 by Munroe & Francis.... Boston, Lee & Shepard, 1905. 103 pp.

1836. _The Fairy Book_. With eighty-one engravings on wood, by Joseph A. Adams. New York, Harper & Bros. 1836. 301 pp. Introduction by "John Smith." Edited by C.G. Verplanck, probably.

1844. _Fairy Land, and Other Sketches for Youths_, by the author of _Peter Parley's Tales_ (Samuel G. Goodrich). Boston, J. Munroe & Co. 167 pp. Plates, Cromo. Lith. of Bouvé & Sharp, Boston.

1848. _Rainbows for Children_, by L. Maria Child, _ed_. New York, C.S. Francis & Co. 170 pp. 28 original sketches ... by S. Wallin.... B.F. Childs, wood engraver: p. 8. Advertising pages: New books published by C.S. Francis & Co., N.Y.... _The Fairy Gift and the Fairy Gem_. Four volumes of choice fairy tales. Each illustrated with 200 fine engravings by French artists: p. 2.

1851. _Wonder Book_, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Illustrated by W. Crane, 60 designs, published by Houghton, 1910.

1852. _Legends of the Flowers_, by Susan Pindar. New York, D. Appleton & Co., 178 pp.

1853. _Fairy Tales and Legends of Many Nations_, by Charles B. Burkhardt. New York, Chas. Scribner. 277 pp. Illustrated by W. Walcutt and J.H. Cafferty.

1854. _The Little Glass Shoe, and Other Stories for Children_. Philadelphia, Charles H. Davis. 128 pp. Advertising pages: A description of illustrated juvenile books, published by Charles H. Davis: 16 pp. _A Book of Fairy Stories_: p. 9.

1854. _The History of Whittington and His Cat_. Miss Corner and Alfred Crowquill. _Dick Whittington_ is said to have been the best seller among juvenile publications for five hundred years.

1855. _Flower Fables_, by Louisa May Alcott. Boston, G.W. Briggs & Co. 182 pp.

1855. _The Song of Hiawatha_, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Published now by Houghton, illustrated by Frederick Remington.

1864. _Seaside and Fireside Fairies_, by George Blum. Translated from the German of Georg Blum and Louis Wahl. By A.L. Wister. Philadelphia, Ashmead & Evans, 292 pp.

1867. _Grimm's Goblins_, selected from the _Household Stories_ of the Brothers Grimm. Jacob L.K. Grimm. Boston, Ticknor & Fields. 111 pp.

1867. _Fairy Book. Fairy Tales of All Nations_, by Edouard Laboulaye. Translated by Mary Booth. New York, Harper & Bros., 363 pp. Engravings.

1867. _The Wonderful Stories of Fuz-buz the Fly and Mother Grabem the Spider_. By S. Weir Mitchell. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co. 79 pp.

1868. _Folks and Fairies_. Stories for little children. Lucy Comfort. New York, Harpers, 259 pp. Engravings. Advertising pages: Six fairy tales published by Harper & Bros.

1870. _Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper_. Boston, Fields, Osgood & Co. 1871. 8 pp. Colored plates by Alfred Fredericks.

1873. _Mother Goose_. Illustrations of Mother Goose's Melodies. By Alexander Anderson. New York. Privately printed by C.L. Moreau (Analectic Press), 1873, 36 1. 10 numb. 1. (Designed and engraved on wood.)

1870. _Beauty and the Beast_, by Albert Smith. New York, Manhattan Pub. Co., 1870. 64 pp. With illustrations by Alfred Crowquill.

This brings the American child's fairy tale up to recent publications of the present day which are given in the chapter, "Sources of Material." An attempt has been made here to give a glimpse of folk and fairy tales up to the time of the Grimms, and a view of modern publications in France, Germany, England, and America. The Grimms started a revolution in folk-lore and in their lifetime took part in the collection of many tales of tradition and influenced many others in the same line of work. An enumeration of what was accomplished in their lifetime appears in the notes of _Grimm's Household Tales_, edited by Margaret Hunt, published by Bonn's Libraries, vol. II, pp. 531. etc.

In modern times the Folk-Lore Society of England and America has been established. Now almost every nation has its folk-lore society and folk-tales are being collected all over the world. Altogether probably Russia has collected fifteen hundred such tales, Germany twelve hundred, Italy and France each one thousand, and India seven hundred. The work of the Grimms, ended in 1859, was continued by Emanuel Cosquin, who, in his _Popular Tales of Lorraine_, has made the most important recent contribution to folklore,--important for the European tale and important as showing the relation of the European tale to that of India.

The principal recent collections of folk-lore are:--

_Legends and Fairy Tales of Ireland_. Croker. 1825. _Welsh and Manx Tales_. Sir John Rhys. 1840-. _Popular Rhymes of Scotland_. Chambers. 1847. _Tales of the West Highlands_. Campbell. 1860. _Popular Tales from the Norse_. Dasent. 1862. _Zulu Nursery Tales_. Callaway. 1866. _Old Deccan Days_. Frere. 1868. _Fireside Tales of Ireland_. Kennedy. 1870. _Indian Fairy Tales_. Miss Stokes. 1880. _Buddhist Birth Stories_. Rhys Davids. 1880. _Kaffir Folk-Lore_. Theal. 1882. _Folk-Tales of Bengal_. Day. 1883. _Wide Awake Stories_. Steel and Temple. 1884. _Italian Popular Tales_. Crane. 1885. _Popular Tales of Lorraine_. Cosquin. 1886. _Popular Tales and Fictions_. Clouston. 1887. _Folk-Tales of Kashmir_. Knowles. 1887. _Tales of Ancient Egypt_. Maspero. 1889. _Tales of the Sun_. Mrs. Kingscote. 1890. _Tales of the Punjab_. Steel. 1894. _Jataka Tales_. Cowell. 1895. _Russian Folk-Tales_. Bain. 1895. _Cossack Fairy Tales_. Bain. 1899. _New World Fairy Book_. Kennedy. 1906. _Fairy Tales, English, Celtic, and Indian_. Joseph Jacobs. 1910-11.

This brings the subject down to the present time. The present-day contributions to folk-lore are found best in the records of the Folk-lore Society, published since its founding in London, in 1878; and daily additions, in the folk-lore journals of the various countries.

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Adams, Oscar Fay: _The Dear Old Story-Tellers_. Lothrop.

Ashton, John: _Chap-Books of the 18th Century_. Chatto & Windus. London, 1882.

Bunce, John T.: _Fairy Tales, Origin and Meaning_. Macmillan, 1878.

Chamberlain, A.F.: _The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought_. Macmillan.

Clouston, W.A.: _Popular Tales and Fictions_. Edinburgh, Blackwoods, 1887.

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Cox, Miss Roalfe: _Cinderella_. Introduction by Lang. Nutt, 1892.

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Field, Mrs. E.M.: _The Child and His Book_. Gardner, Darton & Co.

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_Ibid.: Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales_. Smith, 1849.

Halsey, Rosalie: _Forgotten Books of the American Nursery_. Goodspeed, Boston, 1911.

Hartland, E.S.: _Science of Fairy Tales_. Preface. Scribner, 1891.

_Ibid.: English Folk and Fairy Tales_. Camelot series, Scott, London.

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Pearson, Edwin. _Banbury Chap-Books and Nursery Toy-Book Literature_ (18th and early 19th centuries). London. A. Reader, 1890.

Perrault, Charles: _Popular Tales_. Edited by A. Lang. Introduction. Oxford, 1888.

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Scott, Sir Walter: _Minstrelsy of Scottish Border_. Preface to Tamlane, "Dissertation on Fairies," p. 108.

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Steel, Flora A.: _Tales of the Punjab_. Introduction and Appendix. Macmillan.

Tabart, Benj.: _Fairy Tales, or the Lilliputian Cabinet_. London, 1818. Review: _The Quarterly Review_, 1819, No. 41, pp. 91-112.

Tappan, Eva M.: _The Children's Hour_. Introduction to "Folk-Stories and Fables." Houghton.

Taylor, Edgar: _German Popular Stories_. Introduction by Ruskin. Chatto & Windus.

Tylor, E.B.: _Primitive Culture_. Holt, 1889.

Warner: _Fairy Tales. Library of the World's Best Literature_, vol. 30.

Welsh, Charles: _Fairy Tales Children Love_. Introduction. Dodge.

_Ibid.:_ "The Early History of Children's Books in New England." _New England Magazine_, n.s. 20: 147-60 (April, 1899).

_Ibid.: A Chap-Book_. Facsimile Edition. 1915. World Book Co.

_Ibid.: Mother Goose_. Facsimile Edition. 1915. World Book Co.

White, Gleeson: "Children's Books and Their Illustrators." _International Studio_, Special Winter Number, 1897-98.