• Publication: The Brownies and Other TalesPublication Record # 724860
• Author: Juliana Horatia Ewing
• Date: 1920-00-00
• Publisher: George Bell & Sons
• Pub. Series: Queen's Treasures Series
• Price:
  4/6^?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: 176
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • Reissue of the 1910 Queen's Treasures ed. (see)
  • Published "early" 1920 Half-title verso ("#page/n9" at Internet Archive) lists 21 volumes in the series, plus one in the press, price 4/6 each. A "late" 1920 advertisement, "Bell's Gift Books" The Bookman 1920-12 p123, lists 2 New Volumes, states 23 volumes in the series, price 5/- each.
  • Price is from the series list ("#page/n9"): Small Crown 8vo. 4s. 6d. net each. With 8 Coloured Plates and Decorated Title Page, Covers, and End Papers.
  • Internet Archive provides full view of one copy without original covers, nor back endpapers: --frontispiece and title page, captioned and illustrated respectively (#page/n11 and /n12) The interior including front endpapers nearly matches the 1910 Queen's Treasures publication. Differences in this reissue: 1. updated description and list of the series ("#page/n9") 2. captioned plates rather than captioned guard sheets facing the plates (frontispiece plus 7 interior) 3. title page date 4. horizontal line above printer statement, last printed page p176
  • Another WorldCat library record reports a 1919 printing of the same edition evidently, OCLC 154286915.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 22871814

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