Joseph Jacobs
(1854 - 1916)
Born in Australia, Joseph Jacobs moved to England where he collected folklore and fairy tales. He moved to the United States in 1900 where he edited the Jewish Encyclopedia.
Bibliography
Ardizzone’s English Fairy Tales (1980)
Twelve traditional English tales, including Jack the Giant-Killer, Henny-Penny, and The Story of the Three Bears.
Best In Children’s Books Volume 10 (1958)
A collection of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Read online at archive.org.
Margery Williams Bianco
Brothers Grimm
Joseph Jacobs
Eric Knight
Et al
Fritz Kredel
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Richard Scarry
Et al
Best In Children’s Books Volume 10A (1963)
A collection of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations. This revised edition substitutes an extract from Charlotte’s Web for Traveling the Underground Railroad.
Read online at archive.org.
Margery Williams Bianco
Brothers Grimm
Joseph Jacobs
Eric Knight
E. B. White
Et al
Fritz Kredel
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Richard Scarry
Garth Williams
Et al
Best in Children’s Books Volume 2 (1957)
A collection of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new and different illustrators.
Read online at archive.org.
Willy Ley
Various
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Henry C. Pitz
Feodor Rojankovsky
Et al
Best in Children’s Books Volume 24 (1959)
A collection of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Read online at archive.org.
Carolyn Haywood
Joseph Jacobs
Rudyard Kipling
James Whitcomb Riley
Et al
Irene Haas
Edward Shenton
Leonard Weisgard
Et al
Best In Children’s Books Volume 31 (1960)
An anthology of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Margery Clark
Eleanor Estes
Joseph Jacobs
Et al
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Maurice Sendak
Edward Shenton
Et al
Best in Children’s Books Volume 40 (1960)
A compendium of stories, poems and articles, many with new illustrations.
L. Frank Baum
Margery Williams Bianco
Joseph Jacobs
Et al
Irene Haas
Robin Jacques
Feodor Rojankovsky
Richard Scarry
The Book of Wonder Voyages (1896)
A retelling of four famous hero tales, from The Argonauts to the Norsemen. Read online at archive.org.
The Buried Moon (1969)
Tells how the Moon came down to earth to do battle with the evil ones and was rescued by human heroes.
Celtic Fairy Tales (1892)
A choice selection from the great wealth of Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Cornish folk and fairy tales. Read online at archive.org.
Celtic Fairy Tales (1970)
This collection also includes More Celtic Fairy Tales.
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 2 (1962)
This collection includes fables, folk tales, and fairy tales.
Brothers Grimm
Joseph Jacobs
Rudyard Kipling
Charles Perrault
Howard Pyle
Ruth Sawyer
Et al
Irwin Greenberg
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Et al
English Fairy Tales (1890)
This was one of the first collections of English fairy tales. Read online at archive.org.
English Fairy Tales (1968)
One of the first collections of English fairy tales. This edition also includes More English Fairy Tales. Read the first edition online at archive.org.
Europa's Fairy Book (1916)
A selection of stories that appear in various forms in many different European countries. Read online at archive.org.
The Fables of Aesop (1894)
A selection and retelling of the well known Fables by a master of folklore. Read online at archive.org.
The Fables of Aesop Selected, Told Anew and their History Traced (1950)
Joseph Jacobs selects eighty-two of Aesop’s fables.
Indian Fairy Tales (1892)
A selection of Indian folk and fairy tales. Read online at archive.org.
More Celtic Fairy Tales (1895)
A second selection from the vast riches of the Celtic folk and fairy tale. Read online at archive.org.
More English Fairy Tales (1894)
Confounding the critics, the author produces another collection of English fairy tales. Read online at archive.org.