1894 Scarce First Edition - MORE CELTIC FAIRY TALES by Joseph Jacobs Illustrated by John D. Batten.

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(Description) 

Author: Joseph Jacobs (Selected and edited). (John D. Batten, illustrator).
Title: More Celtic Fairy Tales.
Publisher: London, David Nutt, 1894. First Edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 9 " X 6.5 ".
Pages: xii-234 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good original cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. A rare find in any condition!
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown, toning of endpaper -  as shown). 
Illustrations: Profusely illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece, 7 full-page illustrations, and some in-text illustrations by John D. Batten.

Estimate: (Scarce with practically no other copy available worldwide).

The book: Attractive and scarce first edition of the MORE Celtic Fairy Tales, a sequel to Celtic Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs. A rare find in any condition!

The author: Joseph Jacobs (29 August 1854 – 30 January 1916) was an Australian folklorist, translator, literary critic, social scientist, historian and writer of English literature who became a notable collector and publisher of English folklore. His work went on to popularize some of the world's best-known versions of English fairy tales including "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Goldilocks and the three bears", "The Three Little Pigs", "Jack the Giant Killer" and "The History of Tom Thumb". He published his English fairy tale collections: English Fairy Tales in 1890 and More English Fairy Tales in 1893[a] but also went on after and in between both books to publish fairy tales collected from continental Europe as well as Jewish, Celtic and Indian fairytales which made him one of the most popular writers of fairytales for the English language. 

The illustrator: John Dickson Batten (8 October 1860 – 5 August 1932), born in Plymouth, Devon, was an English painter of figures in oils, tempera and fresco and a book illustrator and printmaker. He was an active member of the Society of Painters in Tempera, with his wife Mary Batten, a gilder.