# The Happy Prince and Other Tales is issued as a public fairy-tale book of charity and class seeing

Date: 1888

## The fact

The 1888 Happy Prince volume is the dated public tale-book. [Oscar Wilde](/people/oscar-wilde)’s documented role is: He wrote the tales. Illustrators share the book. He did not staff a poor-law board. Do not merge with Poems 1881 or with Soul of Man 1891. This is the 1888 tale book. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Oscar Wilde's documented role is: He wrote the tales. Illustrators share the book. He did not staff a poor-law board.

## Context

London book trade. Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood as received illustrators. Named others on the file: Illustrators as named on the book; unnamed child readers as later public. The public setting is the file around 1888-05-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays The Happy Prince and Other Tales is issued as a public fairy-tale book of charity and class seeing. The setting of The Happy Prince and Other Tales is issued as a public fairy-tale book of charity and class seeing is the public file around 1888-05-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica’s tale article and the British Library’s first-edition page independently date the 1888 book. Official: Britannica — The Happy Prince and Other Tales (https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Happy-Prince-and-Other-Tales; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: British Library — first edition of The Happy Prince and Other Tales (https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/first-edition-of-the-happy-prince-and-other-tales-by-oscar-wilde; British Library). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — The Happy Prince and Other Tales (https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Happy-Prince-and-Other-Tales; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: British Library — first edition of The Happy Prince and Other Tales (https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/first-edition-of-the-happy-prince-and-other-tales-by-oscar-wilde; British Library).

Official or archival record: Britannica — The Happy Prince and Other Tales (https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Happy-Prince-and-Other-Tales; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Charity-tale speech. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A public children’s-and-adults charity-tale book is a humanitarian-speech path. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## What is established and what is not

Fiction, not a relief statute. Established: a sourced public record of The Happy Prince and Other Tales is issued as a public fairy-tale book of charity and class seeing under 1888-05-01. Established: a sourced public record of The Happy Prince and Other Tales is issued as a public fairy-tale book of charity and class seeing under 1888-05-01.

The attached driver is humanitarian-access. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not merge with Poems 1881 or with Soul of Man 1891. This is the 1888 tale book. Mixed effects of The Happy Prince and Other Tales is issued as a public fairy-tale book of charity and class seeing are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of The Happy Prince and Other Tales is issued as a public fairy-tale book of charity and class seeing. Naming Oscar Wilde does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1888-05-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Oscar Wilde: https://factrail.ai/people/oscar-wilde

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/first-edition-of-the-happy-prince-and-other-tales-by-oscar-wilde
- https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Happy-Prince-and-Other-Tales

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/wil-happy-prince-1888