• Publication: Granny's Wonderful Chair and Its Tales of Fairy TimesPublication Record # 374042
• Author: Frances Browne
• Date: 1857-00-00
• Publisher: Griffith and Farran
• Price:
  3/6^?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: vi+169
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • 1st ed., two hardcover formats Published for the 1856 Christmas gift season
  • British Library (BL, below) and WorldCat (OCLC) records imply title page date 1857.
  • "Small 4to. 3s. 6d. cloth ; 4s. 6d. coloured, gilt edges." --listing in the publisher's "New Illustrated Children's Books to be published in November", The Athenaeum #1514 1856-11-01 p1324 "... one of the happiest blendings of marvel and moral we have seen. Many little ones will sit (in spirit) in this astonishing piece of furniture long before 1856 is an old year ... [brief substantial review] ..." "illustd., 3s. 6d.; col., 4s. 6d." --"Children's Books", Literary Gazette 1856-11-29 p950
  • OCLC 173285986 reports from a 1991 microfiche copy: -- "Griffith and Farran, late Grant and Griffith, successors to Newbery and Harris, corner of St. Paul's Churchyard" -- "vi, 169, [1], 16 pages illustrations, 4 plates 8 0" (ie, octavo) -- "16-page catalogue of works published by Griffith and Farran" OCLC 46772791 notes "Pictorial gold-stamped binding signed JL" and "illustrations (some color)" --evidently a copy of the higher-price ed.
• External IDs:
  • BL: 000497478
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 173285986 52260847 46772791

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  Granny's Wonderful Chair and Its Tales of Fairy Times • interior artwork by Kenny Meadows
• Introductory • short story by Frances Browne
• The Christmas Cuckoo • short story by Frances Browne
• The Lords of the White and Grey Castles • short story by Frances Browne
• The Greedy Shepherd • short story by Frances Browne
• The Story of Fairyfoot • short story by Frances Browne
• The Story of Childe Charity • short story by Frances Browne
• Sour and Civil • short story by Frances Browne
• The Story of Merrymind • short story by Frances Browne
• Prince Wisewit's Return • short story by Frances Browne