Muller’s Fairy Tales – A Complete Illustrated Bibliography

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Muller's Folk & Fairy Tales

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Introduction

Welcome to my illustrated bibliography of all of the books in Frederick Muller’s Folk & Fairy Tales series (also known as the World Fairy Tales Collection). These books were published between the late 1950s to the early 1970s – mostly by Frederick Muller, but several were also published by Follett. The books contain some lovely tales from countries all around the world, and all the ones I have read have been of a high standard.

Different countries are covered by different authors, and the black and white (no colour) illustrations are by a variety of different illustrators, but all are quality and it’s a lovely set to include in a world folklore collection.

If you’re looking to collect some or all the books in this series, they can easily be collected separately, because the dust jacket for each book is often illustrated in the style of the regional tales being told, so the books don’t necessarily look like a series. There are also several books created towards the end of the series which contain representative tales from many countries if you are interested in reading a sampler of stories. *Titles I haven’t sighted to confirm as part of the series are marked with an asterisk. 

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African Fairy Tales (Muller)
African Fairy Tales

African Fairy Tales by Kathleen Arnott, illustrated by Shyam Varma
Frederick Muller, 1967

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Arabian Fairy Tales

Arabian Fairy Tales by Amina Shah, illustrated by George Buday
9780584623529, Frederick Muller, 1969

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Fairy Tales from the Barbary Coast

Fairy Tales from the Barbary Coast by Peter Lum, illustrated by Shyam Varma
Frederick Muller, 1967

*Fairy tales from Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Fairy Tales from Bohemia

Fairy Tales from Bohemia by Maurice and Pamela Michael, illustrated by John Lathey
9780584623673, Frederick Muller, 1968

*Folklore from the Czech Republic.

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Burmese and Thai Fairy Tales

Burmese and Thai Fairy Tales by Eleanor Brockett, illustrated by Harry and Ilse Toothill
Frederick Muller, 1965
Follett, 1967

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Celtic Fairy Tales

Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, edited by Lucia Turnbull, illustrated by John D. Batten
9780584623574, Frederick Muller, 1965

*Irish and British folklore

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Chinese Fairy Tales

Chinese Fairy Tales by Leslie Bonnet, illustrated by Henry Toothill.
Frederick Muller, 1958

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Danish Fairy Tales

Danish Fairy Tales by Inge Hack, illustrated by Harry and Ilse Toothill
Frederick Muller, 1964
Follett, 1964

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

English Fairy Tales

English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, illustrated by John D Batten
Frederick Muller, 1959

➤ OOP. Find it at Abes | eBay

French Fairy Tales

French Fairy Tales by Roland Grantt, illustrated by Patricia Morriss
Frederick Muller, 1958

➤ OOP. Find it at Abes | eBay

German Fairy Tales

German Fairy Tales by Maurice and Pamela Michael, illustrated by Hazel Cook
Frederick Muller, 1963

*A non-Grimm selection.

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Greek Fairy Tales

Greek Fairy Tales by Barbara Ker Wilson, illustrated by Harry Toothil
Frederick Muller, 1966
Follett, 1968

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Heroes of Kalevala (Finnish)

Heroes of Kalevala by Irma Kaplan, illustrated by Barbara Brown
Frederick Muller, 1973

*Finnish folklore.

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Indian Fairy Tales

Indian Fairy Tales by Lucia Turnbull, illustrated by Hazel Cook
Frederick Muller, 1965

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Indonesian Fairy Tales

Indonesian Fairy Tales by Adele de Leeuw, illustrated by Harry Toothill
Frederick Muller, 1966

“Twenty-six legends and tales from Java, Borneo, Sumatra, and Burma.”

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Italian Fairy Tales

Italian Fairy Tales by Peter Lum, illustrated by Harry and Ilse Toothill
Frederick Muller, 1972
Follett, 1963

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Japanese Fairy Tales

Japanese Fairy Tales by Juliet Piggott, illustrated by Genjiro Mita (Muller) / Harry Toothill (Follett)
Frederick Muller, 1972
Follett, 1962

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

The Magic Bridle (Great Britain & Ireland)

The Magic Bridle and other Fairy Tales from Great Britain and Ireland by Forbes Stuart, illustrated by Richard O’Connor
Frederick Muller, 1974

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Mexican Folk Tales

Mexican Folk Tales by Juliet Piggott, illustrated by John Spencer
9780584623833, Frederick Muller, 1973

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

The Mistress of the Copper

The Mistress of the Copper: Folk Tales from the Urals* by Pavel Bazhov, retold by James Riordan
Frederick Muller, 1974

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Folk Tales from North America

Folk Tales from North America by Peter Lum, illustrated by John Spenser
Frederick Muller, 1974

*”9 Eskimo tales, 7 tales of the East Coast Indians, 6 tales of the Central Plains Indians and 6 tales of the West Coast Indians”

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Norwegian Fairy Tales

Norwegian Fairy Tales chosen and illustrated by Gert Strindberg
Frederick Muller, 1953, reprinted 1966

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Fairy Tales from the Pacific Islands

Fairy Tales from the Pacific Isles by A. W. Reed, illustrated by Stewart Irwin
Frederick Muller, 1969

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Persian Fairy Tales

Persian Fairy Tales by Eleanor Brockett, illustrated by Harry Toothill
Frederick Muller, 1962
Follett, 1968

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Polish Fairy Tales

Polish Fairy Tales by Zoë Zajdler, illustrated by Hazel Cook
Frederick Muller, 1964

Look for a copy on Abes

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Portuguese Fairy Tales

Portuguese Fairy Tales by Maurice and Pamela Michael, illustrated by Harry and Ilse Toothill
Frederick Muller, 1967
Follett, 1965

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Russian Fairy Tales

Russian Fairy Tales by E.M. Almedingen, illustrated by Simon Jeruchim
Frederick Muller, 1957

➤ OOP. Find it at Abes | eBay

The Rusty Knight and other tales from Germany

The Rusty Knight* by Richard Volkmann-Leander, illustrated by John Spencer, translated by Susanne Flatauer.
9780584623994, Frederick Muller, 1974

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Sage Smoke (US)

Sage Smoke: Tales of the Shoshoni-Bannock Indians* by Eleanor B. Hardy, illustrated by Arvis L. Stewart.
9780695404086, Follett 1973

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Scottish Fairy Tales

Scottish Folk Tales by Ruth Ratcliff, illustrated by Thomas R. Breheny
9780584623932, Frederick Muller, 1976

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

The Sea King’s Gift and Other Tales from Finland

The Sea King’s Gift and Other Tales from Finland* by Zacharius Topelius, retold by Irma Kaplan, illustrated by Anne Knight
Frederick Muller, 1973

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

South American Fairy Tales

South American Fairy Tales by John Meehan, illustrated by Jose Pradera
Frederick Muller, 1970

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Spanish Fairy Tales

Spanish Fairy Tales by John Marks, illustrated by Hazel Cook
Frederick Muller, 1957, republished 1973

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Fairy Tales from Sweden

Fairy Tales from Sweden by Irma Kaplan, illustrated by Carol Calder
Frederick Muller, 1957

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Fairy Tales from Switzerland

Fairy Tales from Switzerland selected and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin
Frederick Muller, 1950

*Originally published as The Three Sneezes and Other Swiss Tales

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Turkish Fairy Tales

Turkish Fairy Tales by Eleanor Brockett, illustrated by Harry and Isle Toothill
Frederick Muller, 1965
Follett, 1963

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Famous Fairy Tales of the World

Famous Fairy Tales of the World by Juliet Piggott, illustrated by Michael Godfrey
Frederick Muller, 1965

*A selection of tales from the series

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Myth & Moonshine

Myth & Moonshine by Juliet Piggott, illustrated by Sara Silcock
Frederick Muller, 1973

*A selection of tales from the series

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

Old European Fairy Tales

Old European Fairy Tales by Irma Kaplan, illustrated by James Hunt
Frederick Muller, 1969

*A selection of tales from the series.

➤ OOP. Find it at Amazon | Abes | eBay

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