Publisher's Synopsis
More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
Illustrator byJohn Dickson Batten
- The pied piper of Franchville
- Hereafterthis
- The golden ball
- My own self
- The black bull of Norroway
- Yallery Brown
- Three feathers
- Sir Gammer Vans
- Tom Hickathrift
- The Hedley kow
- Gobborn seer
- Lawkamercyme
- Tattercoats
- The wee bannock
- Johnny Gloke
- Coat o' clay
- The three cows
- The blinded giant
- Scrapefoot
- The pedlar of Swaffham
- The old witch
- The three wishes
- The buried moon
- A son of Adam
- The children in the wood
- The Hobyahs
- A pottle o' brains
- The king of England and his three sons
- King John and the Abbot of Canterbury
- Rushen Coatie
- The king o' the cats
- Tamlane
- The stars in the sky
- News!
- Puddock, Mousie, and Ratton
- The little bull-calf -- The wee, wee Mannie
- Habetrot and Scantlie Mab
- Old mother Wiggle-Waggle
- Catskin
- Stupid's cries
- The Lambton worm
- The wise men of Gotham
- The princess of Canterbury.
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.
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.