The Adventures of a Brownie
Title
The Adventures of a Brownie
Creator
Dinah Maria Mulock-Craik
Pictures by Milo Winter
Publisher
Chicago/New York: Rand McNally & Company
Date
1923
Description
These coarse terracotta covers are a linen-texture cloth. The paper onlay is a relief lithograph that also appears inside. The onlay is surrounded by a double gilt stamped border. One border is around the image and the other is around the edge of the book. Above the onlay is the title gilt stamped. The spine is plain with just the title, author's name, and the publisher's name gilt stamped. The back cover is plain.
The endpapers are plain, but the entirety of the rest of the textblock was printed on glossy wood pulp paper.
Each section has a heavy floral border round the title information, while the border around the title information on the title page is a geometric pattern instead of floral. Small floral black-and-white vignettes are scattered throughout the book. All the full-page illustrations look like plates, but they are not. Smaller illustrations are either black-and-white or color. These are lithographs - same as the onlay - and although the frontispiece looks like a photograph of the author, it too is a relief lithograph.
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The endpapers are plain, but the entirety of the rest of the textblock was printed on glossy wood pulp paper.
Each section has a heavy floral border round the title information, while the border around the title information on the title page is a geometric pattern instead of floral. Small floral black-and-white vignettes are scattered throughout the book. All the full-page illustrations look like plates, but they are not. Smaller illustrations are either black-and-white or color. These are lithographs - same as the onlay - and although the frontispiece looks like a photograph of the author, it too is a relief lithograph.
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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik was an English novelist. A believer in traditional gender roles, her experiences and her writings mirrored the reality that the ideal life did not usually happen. She was born into a tumultuous relationship and was eventually mutually separated from her father who had barely provided earlier in her life anyhow. After the death of her mother, Craik started writing to support her younger brothers. At different times she also gave her father financial support and her income supplemented that of her husband, who had been severely injured prior to their marriage. Their adoption of an abandonded baby shocked society.
Craik lived from 1826-1887.
Milo Winter was an American children's book illustrator. He did such famous book illustrations as Aesop's Fables and Alice in Wonderland.
Winter lived from 1888-1956.
Craik lived from 1826-1887.
Milo Winter was an American children's book illustrator. He did such famous book illustrations as Aesop's Fables and Alice in Wonderland.
Winter lived from 1888-1956.
Subject
Literature / Children's Literature
Identifier
SPECIAL PZ8 .C845 A22 1923
Format
Hardcover book, 9.25 x 6.75 inches
Language
English
Relation
This book can be seen in the photograph, Display Case 7.
Original Format
Book
Collection
Citation
Dinah Maria Mulock-Craik and Pictures by Milo Winter, “The Adventures of a Brownie,” Beautiful Books in Flagler College's Special Collections, accessed May 16, 2024, https://beautifulbooks.omeka.net/items/show/207.