Uncle Peter's Fairy Tale for the Nineteenth Century

Overview:

  • Title: Uncle Peter's Fairy Tale for the Nineteenth Century
  • Author: Elizabeth M. Sewell
  • Year: 1869
  • Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co.
  • Pages: viii+478
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Uncle Peter's Fairy Tale for the Nineteenth Century
  • Notes:
    2019-12-09: Date 1869, revised from 1867 (maybe reported by Reginald3)

    HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover except spine: -- front cover, plain brown cloth with relief design, no text -- half title "A Fairy Tale" -- title page credit: "Edited by" Sewell -- t.p. imprint: two commas -- Preface, p[v], disclaims authorship and closes "Bonchurch: Nov. 30, 1868." -- novel spans p[1]-478 -- back pages, [479-80] "Works Suitable for Young Persons" and 32-page September 1868 "General List of Works publsihed by Messrs. Longmans, Green, and Co."

    Library records (BL and OCLC, below) report the credit to Sewell as editor. The half-title, title page, and Preface suggest that "Uncle Peter" is the author of the story. It's unknown here unknown whether the story is elsewhere attributed to any author.