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[Illustration: Indian Fairy Tales]
[Illustration:]
[Illustration: PRINCESS LABAM]
INDIAN FAIRY TALES
Selected and Edited by
JOSEPH JACOBS
Editor of "Folk Lore"
Illustrated by John D. Batten
[Illustration:]
London David Nutt, 270, 271 Strand 1892
_Only One Hundred and Sixty Copies of this Edition on Japanese Vellum Paper have been printed, of which One Hundred and Fifty are for Sale.
This is No. 147_
_The Illustrations in this Book were coloured by hand by Miss Gloria Cardew._
_TO MY DEAR LITTLE PHIL_
Preface
From the extreme West of the Indo-European world, we go this year to the extreme East. From the soft rain and green turf of Gaeldom, we seek the garish sun and arid soil of the Hindoo. In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind it still flourishes in all the vigour of animism.