Gum Tree Brownie; and other Faërie Folk of the Never Never

ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS Australian Children’s Books –

• A compilation of six children’s stories by Tarella Quin [later Daskein] and illustrated by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.

  This was the author’s first book and the illustrator’s third and marked the beginning of a folklore that was truly Australian. Full page b/w line drawings and other drawings throughout. Foreword by Ethel Turner.

• “The 1907 edition is bound in heavy, bevelled green cl. bd. with an illus. of a brownie in a spider’s web & title, author &c. printed in red & black. The e/p are of green & brown marbled paper; and no printer’s name is to be found inside the book”–Muir p. 102
• (In Antiquarian cabinet.)

• Cited In:

  Muir, M. A bibliography of Australian children’s books, 1903

  pp. 184

  Repaired tender front hinge cover. Otherwise very firm and solid indeed. Rubbings to cover.

  • 184 p., [1] p. of plates : ill. ; 20 x 23 cm. (in Antiquarian cabinet)

  • • Fairies — Juvenile fiction
    • Fairy tales

    • Outhwaite, Ida Rentoul, 1888-1960