• Publication: The Brownies and Other TalesPublication Record # 724016
• Author: Juliana Horatia Ewing
• Date: 1910-04-00
• Publisher: George Bell & Sons
• Pub. Series: Queen's Treasures Series
• Price:
  2/6^?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:

  • New edition This is the 9th volume in the unnumbered Queen's Treasures --revealed by 1908 to 1910 newspaper advertisements, and front pages of some volumes viewed at Hathitrust-- a reprint series with new illustrations.
  • Publication date is inferred from (and price stated in) the listing in "Messrs. Bell's Books", The Sphere 1910-04-23 p.vii and The Athenaeum -04-30 p536, under the publication series description as "New Volume" --as the earliest notices found in newspapers, where Bell's advertisement is frequent in the weekly Athenaeum. There is a short review in The Bookman 38:223 (April 1910), p25.
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original front cover and illustrated endpapers: --half-title page: "Queen's Treasures Series" over "The Brownies" --title page illustrated --List of Illustrations, 8 (frontispiece and 7 interior plates with captioned guard sheets, not included in the pagination) --stories span p3-176 Price is from "The Queen's Treasure Series" description and list, half-title leaf verso. Description: Small Crown 8vo. With 8 Coloured Plates and Decorated Title-Page, Covers, and End-Papers. 2s. 6d. net each. Cover, endpapers, and title page appear to be illustrated by the same artist, and to depict the same race of little people in scenes unrelated to the Ewing stories. That race of presumable "Brownies" may not be Woodward's, either. M. V. Wheelhouse may be the cover, endpapers, and title page artist for all Queen's Treasures volumes. The 8 coloured plates were by Wheelhouse in 7 of the first 9 volumes, with now 2 volumes by Woodward.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 5818595

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  The Brownies and Other Tales • (1910) • interior artwork by Alice B. Woodward
• 3 • The Brownies • juvenile • (1865) • novelette by Juliana Horatia Ewing
• 53 • The Land of Lost Toys • juvenile • (1869) • novelette by Juliana Horatia Ewing
• 87 • Three Christmas Trees • juvenile • (1867) • short story by Juliana Horatia Ewing
• 101 • An Idyll of the Wood • (1867) • short story by Juliana Horatia Ewing
• 117 • Christmas Crackers • (1869) • novelette by Juliana Horatia Ewing
• 145 • Amelia and the Dwarfs • juvenile • (1870) • novelette by Juliana Horatia Ewing