Question & Answer Series 44 Banbury Cross Series

Q: What can you tell me about this book? Blue Beard
Here is what it looks like.

A: Your book belongs to the ten book Banbury Cross Series.

This series was first published in 1904 and 1905 and reprinted for a number of years thereafter. It consists of various fairy tales.

All of the books have the same decoration on the left half of the cover and a book appropriate illustration on the right half.

Each volume came with a dust jacket. See below for examples of the early and later jacket.

Early dust jacket Later dust jacket