Item #64269 The Crock of Gold. Twelve Fairy Tales, Old and New, As told by Jeremiah Toope, Schoolmaster. Fairy Tales, S. BARING-GOULD, Sabine Baring-Gould.

The Crock of Gold. Twelve Fairy Tales, Old and New, As told by Jeremiah Toope, Schoolmaster.

Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1899. First US Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. vi + 252pp. Gilt decorated scarlet cloth, gilt illustration to upper board, gilt titling and dragon image on spine, top edge gilt, b&w illustrations, endnotes. The first American edition A collection of twelve "fairy-tales, old and new," retold by the great folklorist Sabine Baring-Gould, although in the book he attributes them to one Jeremiah Toope, a schoolmaster in Devonshire, who told supposedly told them to console the Queen of the Fairies, whose pet hedgehog has been killed and eaten by a fox. In addition to the introductory fable, The Crock of Gold, the stories comprise: Princess Rosalind, Jack Horner, The Story of Heming, Cleomene, The Ash-Maid, Patient Helen, Flower-de-Luce, The Water of Light, Generides, Sir Cleges, Heart of Ice, and Brains-in-his-toes. Cloth a bit rubbed and darkened overall, all edges and extremities rubbed, spine ends and edges chafed, corners bruised and rubbed, top edge gilt a little rubbed and dulled, fore-edge and endpapers a bit browned and foxed, pages lightly toned with some very faint, light scattered browning / foxing. Overall a tight unmarked VG copy (no dust jacket). Item #64269

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