• Publication: The Girl and the FaunPublication Record # 635979
• Author: Eden Phillpotts
• Date: 1916-00-00
• Publisher: Cecil Palmer & Hayward
• Price:
  42/-^?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: 115
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: CHAPBOOK
• Notes:

  Edition de Luxe 350 copies numbered, signed by both creators, on hand-made paper Large format (reported as 34 cm, 33) Two WorldCat records give 1916, (c)1917
  • Price from publisher adverts • The Scotsman 1916-11-16 p2 "With illustrations in colour and decorative borders by Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A. Cr. 4to, Cloth; 6/- net. Also a limited Edition de Luxe, signed by author and artist, 2£, 2/- net." • The Observer 1916-11-26 p4, same wording, "Nearly ready"
  • Review not found 2017-10-04 in 1916 newspapers (earliest The Spectator 1917-01-06), nor December advertisements. Some WorldCat library records report the limited edition, 350 copies, as "1916, (c)1917". WorldCat records report different page-counts, 78 and 115, as well as different sizes, 26cm and 33cm or so. Newspaper records do not make clear when either format was actually available.
  • See also Container Title, USA National Gallery of Art, concerning a book in its collection that may be one of this edition.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 213737584 3397635 809607198 1000735821

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• The Girl and the Faun • short fiction by Eden Phillpotts