The Girl and the Faun
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Overview:
- Title: The Girl and the Faun
- Author: Eden Phillpotts
- Year: 1916
- Publisher: Cecil Palmer & Hayward
- Price: 42/-
- Pages: 115
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Chapter Book
- Title Reference: The Girl and the Faun
- Notes:
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Edition de Luxe
350 copies numbered, signed by both creators, on hand-made paper
Large format (reported as 34 cm, 33)
Two WorldCat records give 1916, (c)1917
- 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.
- See also Container Title, USA National Gallery of Art, concerning a book in its collection that may be one of this edition.