Original Illustrated Edition
The book was first published in large format by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich with each tale illustrated. Thirty seven artists contributed. This edition is no longer in print; the Octagon Press edition is text only.
Agnes Perkins, writing in the Children's Literature Association Quarterly cited this "lavish" edition of World Tales as an example of books that bridge the gap between illustrated books of folktales published for the juvenile market which pay little attention to sources or to authenticity of tone and language and which supply none of the working tools developed for folklore scholarship which might lead readers to further study of tales from the oral tradition, and collections by folklorists concerned primarily with local variants and the unusual persistance of motifs which ignore questions of the value of the stories from a literary standpoint.
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