• Publication: Blossom: A Fairy StoryPublication Record # 615551
• Author: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
• Date: 1928-11-00
• Publisher: A & C Black
• Price:
  10/6^?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: 94
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Cover: Blossom: A Fairy Story by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
• Notes: 1st ed. Outhwaite bibliography (ouw.edu.au) states in full: Blossom : a fairy story / written and illustrated by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. A. & C. Black, London, 1928, 94p. [16] leaves of plates. 1st print. Publ date (inferred) and price from publisher advert "New Illustrated Books For Boys & Girls" The Observer 1928-11-18 p8; this one "With 8 full-page illustrations in colour, 8 in black and white, and many smaller ones." One reproduction of an illustration and one mention in a review column found in newspapers 12-02 and 12-06. Cover artist is Outhwaite, clearly from image provided by one dealer at ABEbooks 2017-04-27: "205mm x 270mm blue cloth backed decorative leaf patterned paper boards with black and white paste down image of two fairies (measuring 90 x 110 mm) together with titles to the front and gilt titles to the spine". Illustration differs from that used on the 1987 ed.

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• Blossom: A Fairy Story • juvenile • (1928) • novel by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite