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The Complete Book of Dragons

E. Nesbit

First published 1972
Publisher Hamish Hamilton
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Cover art Erik Blegvad
Pages 198
Price £1.75
ISBN 0241020344

  • 9 stories
  • The first 8 stories about dragons were collected in 1901, as The Book of Dragons. The 9th one, "The Last of the Dragons", was found by Nesbit's daughter after her death and was first published in Five of Us -- and Madeline
  • "These stories ... were first published in book form ... under the title The book of dragons, with the exception of the story The last of the dragons, which now [ie 1972] appears for the first time with the other E. Nesbit dragon stories" --Title page verso, reported by one WorldCat library record of the 1973 US ed., {{OCLC|589366}}

    1st ed. (new title and illustrations, one story not in The Book of Dragons)
  • WorldCat (OCLC, below) notes the relationship to previous publications and lists the Contents as below (short titles for 6 of 9 stories)
  • Publ date from Amazon UK 2017-02-25
  • Price from brief review The Guardian 1973-01-12 p9 (John Rowe Townsend, "Arthur Rackham rides again", covering "a minor spate of reissues in the last few weeks" --dozens)
  • Cover artist must be interior illustrator Blegvad as this is a new children's picture book.

Page Title Author(s) Type
|1 The Book of Beasts E. Nesbit Short Story
|2 Uncle James E. Nesbit Short Fiction
|3 The Deliverers of Their Country E. Nesbit Short Story
|4 The Ice Dragon E. Nesbit Short Story
|5 The Dragon Tamers E. Nesbit Short Story
|6 The Fiery Dragon E. Nesbit Short Story
|7 Kind Little Edmund E. Nesbit Short Story
|8 The Isle of the Nine Whirlpools E. Nesbit Short Story
|9 The Last of the Dragons E. Nesbit Short Story

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Complete Book of Dragons Cover 1973 Macmillan Hardcover Collection Erik Blegvad 198