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The Old Nursery Stories

E. Nesbit

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 Cover 1975 Hodder & Stoughton Trade Paperback Collection Faith Jaques 191
The Old Nursery Stories Cover 1981 Knight Books Paperback Collection Mary Cartwright 128