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Henry Cole

(Sir Henry Cole)

Author, Editor, Compiler

(1808 - 1882)

A friend of Thomas Love Peacock and John Stuart Mill, Cole began his career as secretary to Francis Palgrave. Under the name of Felix Summerly he published children's books in The Home Treasury series.



Bibliography

Reynard the Fox (1895)

reynard the fox jacobs card book cover

The medieval beast fable of how Reynard the Fox tricked the King of beasts and his court. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Anonymous
Henry Cole
Illustrator(s): W. Frank Calderon

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The Traditional Faëry Tales (1845)

Traditional Faery Tales summerly book cover

Includes Little Red Riding Hood, Beauty and the Beast, and Jack and the Bean Stalk. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): Charles West Cope
John Callcott Horsley
Thomas Webster

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Traditional Nursery Songs of England (1843)

Traditional Nursery Songs summerly book cover

A collection of traditional nursery rhymes, arranged in alphabetical order. There a few that are not in The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): Various

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