Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Fairy tales are written to both entertain and educate, and published in the shadow of the First World War, F. A. Steel’s retellings of forty-one ‘English Fairy Tales’ is a classic collection of such stories which range from the familiar – ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, ‘Little Red Riding-Hood’, and ‘The Three Little Pigs’ – to the perhaps less well-known – ‘The Black Bull of Norroway’, ‘Nix Nought Nothing’, and ‘The Red Ettin’ . Originally published in 1918 it reflects the nationalistic concerns of the period. Steel takes the reader on a journey from Cornwall to Bamborough Castle, via a palace by the sea and high into the sky, where a giant lives. These magical tales are brought to life by one of the best-known illustrators of the time, Arthur Rackham. Stories included in this edition: St. George of Merrie England The Story of the Three Bears Tom-Tit-Tot The Golden Snuff-Box Tattercoats The Three Feathers Lazy Jack Jack the Giant-Killer The Three Sillies The Golden Ball The Two Sisters The Laidly Worm Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse Jack and the Beanstalk The Black Bull of Norroway Catskin The Three Little Pigs Nix Naught Nothing Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar The True History of Sir Thomas Thumb Henny-Penny The Three Heads of the Well Mr. Fox Dick Whittington and his Cat The Wee Bannock How Jack went out to seek his Fortune The Bogey-Beast Little Red Riding-Hood Childe Rowland The Wise Men of Gotham Caporushes The Babes in the Wood The Red Ettin The Fish and the Ring Lawkamercyme Master of all Masters Molly Whuppie and the Double-faced Giant The Ass, the Table, and the Stick The Well of the World's End The Rose Tree Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929) was the author of more than thirty books, beginning in the 1880s, most of which were novels describing Anglo-Indian life during the British Raj. She moved to India with her husband in 1867 and lived there for twenty-two years. Steel had a strong interest in traditional Indian culture and folk tales, and was a contemporary of John Lockwood Kipling, Rudyard Kipling's father, with whom she worked to encourage local arts and crafts. Arthur Rackham (1867–1939) was one of the leading figures from the 'Golden Age' of British book illustration. His ornate style used pen and ink, sometimes paired with subtle watercolours, and many of his books were published as de luxe limited editions. His reputation was founded after he illustrated Washington Irving's Rip van Winkle in 1905, followed by Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens for J. M. Barrie in 1906.