Stories from the Pentamerone.
Selected and edited by E.F. Strange.
London, Macmillan & Co., 1911
This edition features 32 of the tales in a translation by John Edward Taylor published in 1847. Comprising:The Myrtle; Peruonto; Vardiello; The Flea; Cenerentola; The Merchant; Goat-Face; The Enchanted Doe; Parsley; The Three Sisters; Violet; Pippo; The Serpent; The She-Bear; The Dove; Cannetella; Corvetto; The Booby; The Stone in the Cock's Head; The Three Enchanted Princes; The Dragon; The Two Cakes; The Seven Doves; The Raven; The Months; Pintosmalto; The Golden Root; Sun, Moon, and Talia; Nennillo and Nennella; The Three Citrons; Conclusion.
Deluxe edition limited to 150 copies only; 4to; 32 tipped-in colour plates including the frontispiece, by Warwick Goble, with captioned tissue-guards, a few random, faint spots to preliminary pages (as is usual) and extremities of untrimmed edges, otherwise internally bright and fine; publisher's full vellum gilt, closed tear to head of spine and light stain to base, replaced cream endpapers and silk ties, else very good and it presents well; xiii, 303 [1].
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