• Publication: Granny's Wonderful Chair and Its Tales of Fairy TimesPublication Record # 594325
• Author: Frances Browne
• Date: 1891-00-00
• Publisher: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh
• Price:
  5/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 94
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Cover: Granny's Wonderful Chair and Its Tales of Fairy Times by Marie Seymour Lucas
• Notes:

  • New edition Undated Published for the 1891 Christmas gift season
  • Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature provides full view of one copy with original cover: -- front cover, plainly by interior illustrator Lucas, names publisher and artist in full -- half-title page inscribed "To ... Christmas 1891" -- title page, illustrated, shows:   London   Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh   Newbery House Charing Cross Road   and Sydney -- Table of Contents (no numbers), lists 13 with four of 9 stories in two parts, the second "... (Continued)" -- "List of Coloured Illustrations" lists 16 (frontispiece plus 15 plates not included in the pagination) -- text ends p94, followed by the last of 16 plates (image 94a) and "Printed by Turnbull and Spears Edinburgh" (95)
  • Price from advertisement by the publisher The Academy (no. 1013) 1891-10-03 p296 "Griffith Farran & Co.'s // Announcement of Books for the Young for Christmas, 1891" -- this one "crown 4to, paper boards, price 5s" -- 16 colour, 63 b/w illustrations by "Mrs. Seymour Lucas"
  • British Library (BL, below) states "Griffith & Farran, [1891]" --apparently a canonical name for multiple ISFDB publishers. WorldCat records (OCLC, as "[1890?]" and "[1892?]") give the full publisher name and correctly report 94 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates.
  • ("Griffith Farran & Co." succeeded "Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh" during 1891 apparently.)
• External IDs:
  • BL: 000497479
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 500821529 905326647

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  Granny's Wonderful Chair and Its Tales of Fairy Times • interior artwork by Marie Seymour Lucas
• 9 • Introductory • (1857) • short story by Frances Browne
• 16 • The Christmas Cuckoo • (1857) • short story by Frances Browne
• 31 • The Lords of the White and Grey Castles • (1857) • short story by Frances Browne
• 42 • The Greedy Shepherd • (1857) • short story by Frances Browne
• 48 • The Story of Fairyfoot • (1857) • short story by Frances Browne
• 59 • The Story of Childe Charity • (1857) • short story by Frances Browne
• 67 • Sour and Civil • (1857) • short story by Frances Browne
• 80 • The Story of Merrymind • (1857) • short story by Frances Browne
• 91 • Prince Wisewit's Return • (1857) • short story by Frances Browne