Granny's Wonderful Chair and Its Tales of Fairy Times

Overview:

  • Title: Granny's Wonderful Chair and Its Tales of Fairy Times
  • Author: Frances Browne
  • Year: 1891
  • Publisher: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh
  • Price: 5/-
  • Pages: 94
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Granny's Wonderful Chair and Its Tales of Fairy Times
  • Notes:
    • New edition Undated Published for the 1891 Christmas gift season
    • Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature provides full view of one copy with original cover: -- front cover, plainly by interior illustrator Lucas, names publisher and artist in full -- half-title page inscribed "To ... Christmas 1891" -- title page, illustrated, shows:   London   Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh   Newbery House Charing Cross Road   and Sydney -- Table of Contents (no numbers), lists 13 with four of 9 stories in two parts, the second "... (Continued)" -- "List of Coloured Illustrations" lists 16 (frontispiece plus 15 plates not included in the pagination) -- text ends p94, followed by the last of 16 plates (image 94a) and "Printed by Turnbull and Spears Edinburgh" (95)
    • Price from advertisement by the publisher The Academy (no. 1013) 1891-10-03 p296 "Griffith Farran & Co.'s // Announcement of Books for the Young for Christmas, 1891" -- this one "crown 4to, paper boards, price 5s" -- 16 colour, 63 b/w illustrations by "Mrs. Seymour Lucas"
    • British Library (BL, below) states "Griffith & Farran, [1891]" --apparently a canonical name for multiple ISFDB publishers. WorldCat records (OCLC, as "[1890?]" and "[1892?]") give the full publisher name and correctly report 94 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates.
    • ("Griffith Farran & Co." succeeded "Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh" during 1891 apparently.)