8vo. viii, 272pp, with an engraved frontispiece and 3 further engraved plates. Contemporary red half-morocco, red cloth boards, gilt. Marbled end-papers. Slight bumping on corners, mildly. scuffed spine edges with slight wear on boards. Moderate spotting from FEP through preface. Contemporary ink inscription 'Coleridge 1 Sussex Square 1874' to half-title, and further pencilled initials JDC to first leaf of the preface.

A first edition of collected Slavonic fairy tales selected by John Theophilus Naake (1837-1906), folklorist and editor from the British Museum. Translated works include those by K. W. Wojcicki, M. Maksimovich, K.J. Erben and W.S Karajich, marking the first time any of these tales appeared in English.

From the library of John Duke Coleridge (1820-1894), great-nephew of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and ardent lover of literature. Coleridge died at 1 Sussex Place in 1894, by which time his home library in Ottery St Mary, Devon, contained over 12,000 volumes.