Dealings with the Fairies
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Overview:
- Title: Dealings with the Fairies
- Author: George MacDonald
- Year: 1867
- Publisher: Alexander Strahan
- Price: 2/6
- Pages: 308
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Golden Key
- Notes:
- 1st ed.
- WorldCat (OCLC, below) reports -- "Illustrations engraved by 'Dalziel' (i.e. the Dalziel brothers)" -- "[8], 308, [4] pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 14 cm"
- Briefly reviewed as one of "several small square volumes of peculiar merit" (4 small, 1 large) from Strahan, Manchester Guardian 1867-12-10 p7 "Christmas Books" (no price) -- general with specific comment only on Aesop and H.C. Andersen
- Price from "Books for the Young published by Alexander Strahan", dated December 1866; this one "32mo., cloth, gilt, 2s. 6d." --back pages p[310-11] (viewed at Internet Archive, below)
- Internet Archive provides full view of one copy without original cover -- front free endpaper, author's note "My Children," signed "Your Papa." -- title page -- illustrations not listed, 12 b/w plates not included in the pagination, initialed AH and signed DALZIEL(S?) (scrutable with citation or familiarity) -- text spans p[1]-308 without break (p1-99,100-40,141- etc) -- p308 footer "J. and W. Rider, Printers, London." -- p[309] Books by the Same Author (various publishers); [310-11] Books for the Young from Strahan