The Old Nursery Stories
| First published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Type | Collection |
| Pages | 165 |
| Price | 1/6 |
- 9 fairy tales retold by Nesbit
- Originally published for the 1907 Christmas gift season, newspaper coverage shows
- Published for the 1907 Christmas season (presumably as 1908 per title page)
- WorldCat (OCLC, below) reports -- Contents, 9 stories in sequence below -- "color frontispiece, 11 color plates"
- Price from The Scotsman 1907-11-23 p13 "Christmas Publications", this one of 3 nursery books for the season, from Mr HF and Messrs H&S "in co-operation" at this price; "In point of artistic beauty ... a marvellous production."
| Page | Title | Author(s) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| |1 | Cinderella | E. Nesbit | Short Fiction |
| |2 | Beauty and the Beast | E. Nesbit | Short Fiction |
| |3 | Jack the Giant-Killer | E. Nesbit | Short Fiction |
| |4 | Puss in Boots | E. Nesbit | Short Fiction |
| |5 | Jack and the Beanstalk | E. Nesbit | Short Fiction |
| |6 | Dick Whittington and His Cat | E. Nesbit | Short Fiction |
| |7 | The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood | E. Nesbit | Short Fiction |
| |8 | The White Cat | E. Nesbit | Short Story |
| |9 | Hop-o'-My-Thumb | E. Nesbit | Short Fiction |
| Title | Year | Publisher | Format | Type | Catalog ID | Cover Artist | Pages | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Old Nursery Stories |
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1975 | Hodder & Stoughton | Trade Paperback | Collection | Faith Jaques | 191 | |
| The Old Nursery Stories |
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1981 | Knight Books | Paperback | Collection | Mary Cartwright | 128 |