Fairy Tales From All Nations

Montalba's 1849 anthology is genuinely historically significant — an early multicultural gathering of tales that had never reached English readers, illustrated by Richard Doyle no less. For folklore scholars and collectors of Victorian children's literature, it's a find worth pursuing. Modern families should know the prose is dense Victorian English, and the editorial apparatus is thin even by the standards of the day, making it more of a curio than a living read-aloud.