d consist of Newbery's book with such
additions from Ritson and Halliwell as bear internal
evidence of antiquity and are true nursery rhymes.
1770. _Queen Mab, A Collection of Entertaining Tales of
Fairies_.
1783. _The Lilliputian Magazine_. Illustrated by Thomas
Bewick, published by Carnan.
1788. _The Pleasing Companion, A Collection of Fairy Tales_.
1788. _Fairy Tales Selected from the Best Authors_, 2 vols.
1770-91. Books published by John Evans, of Long Lane.
Printed on coarse sugar paper. They included: _Cock Robin_,
1791; _Mother Hubbard; Cinderella_; and _The Tragical Death
of an Apple Pye_.
1809. _A Collection of Popular Stories for the Nursery_,
translated from French, Italian, and Old English, by
Benjamin Tabart, in 4 volumes.
1810 (about). _Lilliputian Library_, by J.G. Rusher, of
Bridge St., Banbury. The Halfpenny Series included:
_Mother Hubbard and Her Dog; Jack The
Giant-Killer; Dick Whittington and His Cat; The
History of Tom Thumb_ (Middlesex); _Death and
Burial of Cock Robin; and Cinderella and Her Glass
Slipper_.
The Penny Series included:--
_History of a Banbury Cake, and Jack the
Giant-Killer_, designed by Craig, engraved by Lee.
Of Rusher's books those engraved by the Bewick School were:
_Cock Robin; The History of Tom Thumb_; and
_Children in the Wood_.
Rusher's books also included:
_Mother Hubbard and Her Dog, Cinderella and Her
Glass Slipper_, and _Dick Whittington and His
Cat_, all designed by Cruikshank, engraved by
Branstone.
1818. _Fairy Tales, or the Lilliputian Cabinet_, collected
by Benj. Tabart, London. This was a new edition of the
collection of 1809, and contained twenty-four stories. A
full review of it may be seen in the _Quarterly Review_,
1819, No. 41, pp. 91-112. The tales included translations
from Perrault, Madame D'Aulnoy, Madame de Beaumont, tales
from _The Thousand and One Nights_, and from _Robin Hood_;
and the single tales of _Jack the Giant-Killer, Tom Thumb_,
and _Jack and the Bean-Stalk_.
1824, 1826. _German Popular Stories_, translated by Edgar
Taylor, with illustrations by Cruikshank, published by
Charles Tilt, London. A new edition, introductio
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