The Girl and the Faun

Overview:

  • Title: The Girl and the Faun
  • Author: Eden Phillpotts
  • Year: 1916
  • Publisher: Cecil Palmer & Hayward
  • Price: 6/-
  • Pages: 78
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Chapter Book
  • Title Reference: The Girl and the Faun
  • Notes: Frank Brangwyn (illustrator). First Edition. Colour frontis and 3 other colour plates, representing the seasons, by Brangwyn. Title page decorated, and each text page with decorative borders in sepia, also by Brangwyn. (source unknown)

    Price from publisher adverts • The Scotsman 1916-11-16 p2 "With illustrations in colour and decorative borders by Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A. Cr. 4to, Cloth; 6/- net. Also a limited Edition de Luxe, signed by author and artist, 2£, 2/- net." • The Observer 1916-11-26 p4, same wording, "Nearly ready"

    Review not found 2017-10-04 in 1916 newspapers (earliest The Spectator 1917-01-06), nor December advertisements. Some WorldCat library records report the limited edition, 350 copies, as "1916, (c)1917". WorldCat records report different page-counts, 78 and 115, as well as different sizes, 26cm and 33cm or so. Newspaper records do not make clear when either format was actually available.