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The Pied Piper of Hamelin

By Anastasius | Published: December 12, 2009

The present edition of The Pied Piper of Hamelin is an ample poem by Robert Browning, luxuriously illustrated by Kate Greenaway, enlarged, recolored and restored.

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Grimm’s Household Stories

By Anastasius | Published: December 12, 2009

The following collection of the Brothers’ Grimm Household Stories, translated from German by Lucy Crane, and done into pictures by Sir Walter Crane, includes no less than 53 fairy tales.

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Toy Book

By Anastasius | Published: December 12, 2009

This volume restores and brings together eight famous titles of the original Walter Crane’s Toy Book series, including The Sleeping Beauty, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Cinderella or The Little Red Riding Hood.

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Arabian Nights

By Anastasius | Published: December 12, 2009

The stories from The Arabian Nights were brought to the Western world by Antoine Galland’s translation in 1704 and haven’t ceased to delight us ever since. Jonathan Scott’s version is illustrated by Virgina Frances Sterrett.

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Old French Fairy Tales (II)

By Anastasius | Published: December 12, 2009

This second volume of the Old French Fairy Tales by Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Ségur (1799-1874) brings us back into the distant realm of the Queen of Fairies and the King of Genii.

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Old French Fairy Tales (I)

By Anastasius | Published: December 12, 2009

This first volume of the Old French Fairy Tales by Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Ségur (1799-1874) gathers together three stories from a marvelous age when fairies and genii were still thriving in our world and our imagination.

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Tanglewood Tales

By Anastasius | Published: December 12, 2009

Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett, this book depicts the legends of The Minotaur, The Pygmies, The Dragon’s Teeth, Circe’s palace, The Pomegranate Seeds, and The Golden Fleece.

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Timeless Fairy Tales

By Anastasius | Published: December 12, 2009

A selection of classic tales by the Brothers Grimm, Madame de Beaumont and the Baroness d’Aulnoy, illustrated in a pure Victorian style by Sir Walter Crane.

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The Nursery Alice

By Anastasius | Published: December 12, 2009

Back in 1890, Lewis Carroll published a special edition of „Alice in Wonderland” in order to be „read by Children aged from Nought to Five”, with twenty of John Tenniel’s illustrations, coloured and enlarged. This is the restored version.

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