The Golden-Breasted Kootoo

Overview:

  • Title: The Golden-Breasted Kootoo
  • Author: Laura E. Richards
  • Year: 1899
  • Publisher: Little, Brown
  • Pages: 61
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: The Traveller, the Cook, and the Little Old Man
  • Notes:
    • The cover says "The Golden-Breasted Kootoo and Other Stories", but the title page does not include "and Other Stories"
    • details from Google Books
    • the collection is copyright 1885 by Roberts Brothers and 1899 by Little, Brown
    • the stories and illustrations (which were credited to Garrett there) were first published as some chapters of The Joyous Story of Toto in 1885.
    • the frontispiece and some other interior artwork's signatures are "Edmund H. Garrett 1885"; some interior artwork is initialed "EHG"; some is unsigned; all appears to be the same style/artist.
    • No apparent signature on the front cover, but the artwork is similar to that in the rest of the book