The silver curlew / Eleanor Farjeon ; illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard

Eleanor Farjeon

RA Collection: Book

Record number

11/3728

Author

Edition

1st edition

Imprint

Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege. Oxford Univeristy Press, 1953

Physical Description

182 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

General Note

The printer is named on the verso of the title page: `Printed in Great Britain at the University Press, Oxford by Charles Batey, printer to the University.’
With a flyer for an (undated) production of The Silver Curlew with music by Clifton Parker at the Fortune Theatre, [London] loosely inserted.

Contents

I. Mother Codling and her family -- II. Dumplings -- III. Doll’s day-dream -- IV. Charlee Loon -- V. King Nollekens of Norfolk -- VI. Mother Codling is flummoxed -- VII. The spindle-imp -- VIII. Poll comes to court -- IX. Naming the baby -- X. Feather and flax -- XI. Nine guesses -- XII. Poll and Doll -- XIII. The silver curlew -- XIV. Lost in memory -- XV. In the mist -- XVI. The witching-wood -- XVII. The curlew flies -- XVIII. `We’ll never be ready in time!’ -- XIX. The worst spinster in Norfolk -- XX. Little black imp! -- XXI. The last three guesses -- XXII. `Nimmy-Nimmy-Not!’ -- XXIII. Fairy caskets -- XXIV. The sea-shell sings

Binding Note

Cream cloth covers with title in red and white on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated dust-jacket.

Subject

Illustrated books
Children's stories

Contributors