Uncle Peter's Fairy Tale for the Nineteenth Century
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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.