The Brownies The Land of lost toys [and other stories]

Full Record:

1874 [1908]. Ewing. The Brownies. The Land of lost toys [and other stories]. [Illus. by George Cruikshank]

Date:

1874 [1908]

Author:

Ewing

Illustrator:

[Illus. by George Cruikshank]

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Curator Notes:

gift [Wunderlich-C]; H.M. Caldwell reprint, n.d.; Editha Series for Little Girls, New Edition, 1908, v15; the frontispiece by Cruikshank (the only illustration) first appeared in the original 1874 British edition; the other stories are Three Christmas Trees, An Idyll in the Wood, Christmas Crackers, and Amelia and the Dwarfs; front cover titles, rulings and design of flowers and birds printed in reddish-brown on tan cloth, color illustration (girl in blue dress and violet bonnet holding bowl of fruit) pasted as vignette on the middle left of front cover [this front cover format is borrowed from the series format of Caldwell's Every Boy's Library Series]

Subjects:

Short stories or tales/Fantasy stories, Toy stories, Lilliputians - brownies, Lilliputians - dwarfs, Imitations of classics - Alice in Wonderland, Old women, Boys' stories, Gypsies, Christmas stories/Illustrated editions - black and white plates - engravings - wood engravings, Illustrated editions - vignettes - tailpieces - engravings - wood engravings, Illustrated editions - decorated title pages - red and black ink, Illustrated editions - endpapers - printed bookplate, and Exhibit items - bindings - clean copie