Notes
10 stories
"Edited by" KDW and NAS, per the title page (1st ed. and Project Gutenberg). Project Gutenberg file headers list them as "Editors" under "Author: Unknown".
This selection and retelling contains none of the story-telling frame story, the story of Scheherazade, and the non-fiction Preface by Wiggin does not mention it.
The Preface does not address children primarily, but it shows that the co-author/editors (sisters and educators) do intend child readers:
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It would be a delightful task to any boy or girl to begin at the beginning and read the first English version of these famous stories ...
You can also read them in Scott's edition or in Lane's (both of which, but chiefly the former, we have used as the foundation of our text), while your elders--philologists or Orientalists-- are studying the complete versions of John Payne or Sir Richard Burton. ..."
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1st UK ed.
Undated, library records imply (BL and OCLC, below).
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Year and price from brief review in "Christmas Books VII: Illustrated Gift-Books Mostly for Children", Manchester Guardian 1909-12-13 p13 (enthusiastic).
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Co-author credit as "Nora A. Smith" is from the title page of the October 1909 US ed. (see at ISFDB) with nearly-matching page count xii+339+[12], confirmed (viewed at HathiTrust).
The US edition does contain 12 unnumbered interior plates not included in the pagination; no frontispiece. For this edition WorldCat record OCLC 37355841 reports 11 unnumbered leaves of plates, "full-page coloured illustrations by Maxfield Parrish".
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Contents and page numbers are from that US ed. (viewed at HathiTrust).
