• Publication: Dealings with the FairiesPublication Record # 613998
• Author: George MacDonald
• Date: 1867-00-00
• Publisher: Alexander Strahan
• Price:
  2/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 308
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • 1st ed.
  • WorldCat (OCLC, below) reports -- "Illustrations engraved by 'Dalziel' (i.e. the Dalziel brothers)" -- "[8], 308, [4] pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 14 cm"
  • Briefly reviewed as one of "several small square volumes of peculiar merit" (4 small, 1 large) from Strahan, Manchester Guardian 1867-12-10 p7 "Christmas Books" (no price) -- general with specific comment only on Aesop and H.C. Andersen
  • Price from "Books for the Young published by Alexander Strahan", dated December 1866; this one "32mo., cloth, gilt, 2s. 6d." --back pages p[310-11] (viewed at Internet Archive, below)
  • Internet Archive provides full view of one copy without original cover -- front free endpaper, author's note "My Children," signed "Your Papa." -- title page -- illustrations not listed, 12 b/w plates not included in the pagination, initialed AH and signed DALZIEL(S?) (scrutable with citation or familiarity) -- text spans p[1]-308 without break (p1-99,100-40,141- etc) -- p308 footer "J. and W. Rider, Printers, London." -- p[309] Books by the Same Author (various publishers); [310-11] Books for the Young from Strahan
• External IDs:
  • BL: 002309913
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 12954201

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  Dealings with the Fairies • interior artwork by Arthur Hughes
• 1 • The Light Princess • juvenile • (1864) • novelette by George MacDonald
• 100 • The Giant's Heart • (1863) • novelette by George MacDonald
• 141 • The Shadows • (1864) • novelette by George MacDonald
• 206 • Cross Purposes • (1862) • novelette by George MacDonald
• 248 • The Golden Key • novelette by George MacDonald