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Notable for their magnificent, jewel-like color illustrations by Bilibin, these traditional tales include "The Frog Princess," "Vassilissa the Beautiful," and "The White Duck." Though Russian Fairy Tales in the Pantheon Folklore Library is a book for adults, it has sold over 30,000 copies.
Everyman's Library was founded on 15th February 1906 with the publication by Joseph Dent (1849-1926) of fifty titles. Dent, a master bookbinder turned publisher, was a classic Victorian autodidact. The tenth child of a Darlington house-painter, he had left school at thirteen, and arrived in London with a half crown in his pocket. He promised to publish new and beautiful editions of the world's classics at one shilling a volume, 'to appeal to every kind of reader: the worker, the student, the cultured man, the child, the man and the woman' so that 'for a few shillings the reader may have a whole bookshelf of the immortals for five pounds (which will procure him a hundred volumes) a man may be intellectually rich for life'. 'Infinite riches in a little room', as he also put it.
| ISBN: | 9780679436416 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Pub date: | 21 Nov 1995 |
| DEWEY: | 398.20947 |
| DEWEY edition: | 20 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of pages: | 183 |
| Weight: | 386g |
| Height: | 216mm |
| Width: | 165mm |
| Spine width: | 15mm |
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