Doctor Dolittle Stories

American fantasy comedy film Dr. Dolittle starring Eddie Murphy was released June 1998 in the US and Canada. The film "used no material from any of the novels" except the name of the title character Dr. John Dolittle and his ability to talk to animals. --Wikipedia, which reports international receipts but no UK release date

1992 edition, 4th printing Compiled by Olga Fricker Data including price from British Library (BL, below).

Publication date and cover image from Amazon UK 2023-01-05 as Paperback and "Red Fox (10 Sept. 1998)".

From preview at Open Library (OL), copyright page: [quote 9 non-consecutive lines] A Red Fox Book Published by Random House Children's Books A division of The Random House Group Ltd Copyright (c)Christopher Lofting 1967 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd 1968 Red Fox edition first published in 1992 This reprint 1998 All the drawings in this book are used by permission of Christopher Lofting

OL preview ends with "Illustrations" list, probably incomplete: two full pages, 57 captions as quotations from the text, page numbers from 18 to 304.