Joseph Jacobs

More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

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 BrownThree 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.