Date taken from British Library Public Catalogue.

Imagery on plate [2] incorporates signature: "Robert Cruikshank delt. 1834".

"The following Tales have been selected from many others, in the possession of Mr. Robert Cruikshank, for the purpose of illustration. It was his original intention to have illustrated each Tale separately, and to have published it in a detached form; but, at the request of his friends, he has determined on bringing the whole before the public, in a Series of Volumes ... "--Preface.

MASS copy: Bound in green embossed cloth blocked in blind with the spine blocked in gold, in the same design as McLean D 0290. With yellow glazed endpapers. Lacking front free endpaper. With ownership label: "B-C" [i.e. Baroness Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts?]. With bookplate: "Ex Libris Ruari & Antonia McLean".