The Brownies and Other Tales
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Overview:
- Title: The Brownies and Other Tales
- Author: Juliana Horatia Ewing
- Year: 1920
- Publisher: George Bell & Sons
- Price: 4/6
- Pages: 176
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Land of Lost Toys
- Notes:
- Reissue of the 1910 Queen's Treasures ed. (see)
- Published "early" 1920 Half-title verso ("#page/n9" at Internet Archive) lists 21 volumes in the series, plus one in the press, price 4/6 each. A "late" 1920 advertisement, "Bell's Gift Books" The Bookman 1920-12 p123, lists 2 New Volumes, states 23 volumes in the series, price 5/- each.
- Price is from the series list ("#page/n9"): Small Crown 8vo. 4s. 6d. net each. With 8 Coloured Plates and Decorated Title Page, Covers, and End Papers.
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Internet Archive provides full view of one copy without original covers, nor back endpapers:
--frontispiece and title page, captioned and illustrated respectively (#page/n11 and /n12)
The interior including front endpapers nearly matches the 1910 Queen's Treasures publication. Differences in this reissue: 1. updated description and list of the series ("#page/n9") 2. captioned plates rather than captioned guard sheets facing the plates (frontispiece plus 7 interior) 3. title page date 4. horizontal line above printer statement, last printed page p176 - Another WorldCat library record reports a 1919 printing of the same edition evidently, {{OCLC|154286915}}.