Dot and Tot of Merryland
Author: Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919)
Date: 1913
Publisher: M A Donohue & Co
Place: Chicago
Description:
326 pages with illustrations by W W Denslow. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 7 1/4") bound in original publisher's tan cloth pictorially stamped yellow, red, and green. Pictorial end papers. (Greene/Hearn 23) Third edition. Dot and Tot of Merryland was first published by the Geo. M. Hill company of Chicago in 1901.
Dot and Tot of Merryland is a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum. After Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he wrote this story about the adventures of a little girl named Dot and a little boy named Tot in a land reached by floating on a river that flowed through a tunnel. The land was called Merryland and was split into seven valleys. The book was illustrated by artist W. W. Denslow, who had illustrated three previous Baum books. Unlike The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dot and Tot of Merryland contained no tipped in color plates, but was filled with colored text illustrations. There were four full page pictures. The book is the last Baum book that was illustrated by W. W. Denslow.
Evangeline "Dot" Freeland is sent to her rich father's country estate Roselawn for her health. She soon meets the gardener's son "Tot" Thompson, who becomes her friend and playmate. One day, they have a picnic and sit in a boat they find by the river, which gets away and takes them to a passage in a cliff face that brings them to the magical country of Merryland.
The Queen of Merryland, four of her wooden soldiers, and the Candy Man attend Princess Ozma's birthday party in L. Frank Baum's 1909 book The Road to Oz. Baum's map of the surrounding countries of Oz—first seen as an endpaper in Tik-Tok of Oz (1913)—depicts Merryland as being across the desert from the Land of Oz and north of Hiland and Loland. These link the book to L. Frank Baum's famous Oz series. Most subsequent semi-official maps of Oz maintain this link.
Condition:
Foxing to covers, page 13/14 damaged at pictorial leg of Dot else about very good.
