Cover of Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen.

Originally published in French, Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen features 20 folk tales from the Slavic countries and territories. Author Aleksander Chodzko, who was a noted folklorist, poet, Iranologist and Slavist. Chodzko worked as a Russian diplomat in Iran, and also worked for the French ministry in Paris. In 1857, he was the chair of Slavic languages and literature at the College de France, and served in this position until 1883.

Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen was a French collection of the beloved fairy tales passed from generation to generation, and the stories were collected for preservation by Chodzko. Emily Harding, also known as Emily Harding Andrews, published her English translation in 1896, Harding was an illustrator for the woman’s suffrage movement, and frequent illustrator of children’s books. Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen was the first book she had published under her own name.