• Publication: The Brownies and Other TalesPublication Record # 723201
• Author: Juliana Horatia Ewing
• Date: 1886-06-00
• Publisher: George Bell & Sons
• Price:
  1/-^?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: 122
• Format:
  unknown^?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Cover: The Brownies and Other Tales by George Cruikshank
• Notes: New edition, expanded Publication date (inferred) and price from newspaper advertisements; earliest as a listing in "George Bell & Sons' Books", The Athenaeum #3060 1886-06-19 p827. Brief later listings as one under "The Shilling Series". HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy: -- front cover (frontispiece and title page in one) -- stories span p9-122 (double columns) -- no back pages except printer statement p[123] WorldCat record OCLC 1078491209 reports later printings as in "The Shilling Series".
• External IDs:
  • BL: 001183159
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 562199457 1078491209

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  The Brownies and Other Tales • (1870) • interior artwork by George Cruikshank
• 9 • The Brownies • juvenile • (1865) • novelette by Juliana Horatia Ewing
• 32 • The Land of Lost Toys • juvenile • (1869) • novelette by Juliana Horatia Ewing
• 48 • Three Christmas Trees • juvenile • (1867) • short story by Juliana Horatia Ewing
• 55 • An Idyll of the Wood • (1867) • short story by Juliana Horatia Ewing
• 62 • Christmas Crackers • (1869) • novelette by Juliana Horatia Ewing
• 76 • Amelia and the Dwarfs • juvenile • (1870) • novelette by Juliana Horatia Ewing
• 92 • Timothy's Shoes • juvenile • (1870) • novelette by Juliana Horatia Ewing
• 108 • Benjy in Beastland • juvenile • (1870) • novelette by Juliana Horatia Ewing