Notes
Every Dawnchild book has a short note on where it came from. They are collected here, with the occasional piece on an illustrator. A note appears when there is a book or an artist to write about, and not otherwise.
1926 · Faber and Gwyer
Published in London "with pictures by the author" by the young firm that became Faber and Faber three years later. Beryl Irving was not yet thirty and known as a magazine illustrator. Her figures owe something to Jessie M. King; the menace is her own.
1932 · Nisbet
Six years after The Dawnchild and a different kind of book: no fairies, a real coast, a yacht, a treasure hunt and a rival. Bound in red cloth with a jacket painted by C. Cavania Sanders, and a frontispiece by the author.
1941 · Seeley Service
Published in 1941, in wartime, when paper was rationed and a household book had to earn its shelf space. A second printing followed in 1949 with her drawings throughout, and that is the printing this edition is set from.
1947 · Charles Grenier, Ipoh
Written without a kitchen, from memory, in the Singapore internment camps, and printed in Malaya two years after the war with a cover and drawings by the author's sister, Beryl Irving.
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