• Publication: Granny's Wonderful Chair and Its Tales of Fairy TimesPublication Record # 609059
• Author: Frances Browne
• Date: 1908-00-00
• Publisher: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton
• Pub. Series: The Children's Bookcase
• Pub. Series #: 3
• Price:
  1/6^?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: 166
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • Published for the 1907 Christmas season
  • Three WorldCat library records consulted (none adequate) and others for The Children's Bookcase #1 (reliance supported by joint review The Scotsman 1907-11-23 p13)
  • WorldCat library records OCLC 153386590 (as Frowde [1908]) and 86075286 (as Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton, 1909) both report 12 unnumbered leaves of plates; colour illustrations by Margetson. OCLC 558198197 (as Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton, 1908) names both 1857 illustrator Kenny Meadows and Margetson in confusing fashion. Reported page counts: 166, 166, 167.
  • Price from The Scotsman 1907-11-23 p13 "Christmas Publications", this one of 3 nursery books for the season, from Mr HF and Messrs H&S "in co-operation" at this price; "In point of artistic beauty ... a marvellous production."
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 558198197 153386590 86075286

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•  Granny's Wonderful Chair and Its Tales of Fairy Times • interior artwork by W. H. Margetson