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Title: Sylvia's Travels

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Title: Sylvia's Travels Title Record # 2325723
Author: Constance Armfield
Date: 1911-00-00
Type: NOVEL [juvenile]
Language: English
Note:
  • By wife-and-husband duo Constance Smedley and Maxwell Armfield
  • Evidently inspired by Alice's Adventures
  • US publisher blurb: "Sylvia appeals to children just as Lewis Carroll's Alice continues to after two generations of readers have grown up. The illustrations are really beautiful and will delight art lovers, old and young." --NY Times 1911-11-18 p9 "From the Dutton List"
  • Two of the 1910 illustrations by Maxwell Armfield are for sale by online dealers 2018-02-09.
Synopsis:
  • The sign at Rabbit Inn (pp. 20-21) displays this text:   by Amos[?] Rabbit   RABBIT INN   All travellers welcome: animals and mankind: DO come in • we have the nicest beds & breakfasts (one of 4 images viewed at Amazon 2018-02-09)
  • The Wolfsonian (Florida International U) provides one-line abstract "Sylvia travels in search of the Hobby-Beasts, who have the Princess Hildur in their power."
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Sylvia's Travels 1911-00-00 Constance Armfield J. M. Dent  
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).
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