Solario the Tailor: His Tales of the Magic Doublet

Overview:

  • Title: Solario the Tailor: His Tales of the Magic Doublet
  • Author: William Bowen
  • Year: 1922
  • Publisher: The Macmillan Company
  • Price: $2.00
  • Pages: xvi+232
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Solario the Tailor: His Tales of the Magic Doublet
  • Notes:
    • Price from listing NY Times 1922-10-15 p60 [book review p29?] "Latest Books", 12mo.
    • HathiTrust Digital Library (catalog record) provides full view of two copies with original cover (better quality original from Cornell University).
    • Title page begins (all caps) "Solario the Tailor" over "His Tales of the Magic Doublet".
    • Copyright page gives publication date September 1922.
    • Both pages incorporate small unsigned drawings but neither mentions illustration.
    • Tiny cover illustration matches b/w drawing on title page.
    • "Illustrations" p[ix] lists 12 full-page including frontispiece, of which several have discernible signatures "J Ormsbee 22".
    • "To Be Read First" p[xi]-xiii seems to be a synopsis of The Enchanted Forest (1920) to which this book is sequel.
    • There are three unnumbered pages between page xiii and page 1, one of which includes a list of "audience" characters (would be page xv).