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Kind Little Edmund, or The Caves and the Cockatrice

E. Nesbit

First published December 1899
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Published December 1899 in The Strand Magazine issue 24:6 p784-91, with 5 illustrations by H. R. Millar   The illustrations are almost clearly signed "H.R. Millar 1899". They are credited in the volume Index, p801, where the story is (all caps) "Kind Little Edmund ; or, The Caves and the Cockatrice. A Story for Children." (the last small caps).

Beside the cockatrice, the story features a dragon. It is included in the 1901 Book of Dragons (and larger Nesbit collections) with those 7 stories published March to September 1899 as The Seven Dragons.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 1899 Cover The Strand Magazine, December 1899 George Newnes MAGAZINE 784
1901 The Book of Dragons Harper & Brothers Collection |8
1961 The Book of Dragons Epstein & Carroll Collection |8
May 1975 Cover The Last of the Dragons and Some Others Puffin / Penguin Books (UK) Collection |8
June 1985 Cover The Last of the Dragons and Some Others Puffin / Penguin Books (UK) Collection
March 1986 Cover The Book of Dragons Dell Yearling Collection 138
1997 Cover The Book of Dragons BridgeWater Books Collection
September 2001 Cover The Book of Dragons Seastar Books Collection 153
September 2001 Cover The Book of Dragons Seastar Books Collection 153
September 2004 Cover The Book of Dragons Dover Publications Collection 139
November 2007 The Book of Dragons Project Gutenberg Collection 139
November 2008 Cover The Book of Dragons Dodo Press Collection
April 2009 Cover The Book of Dragons LibriVox Collection |8
July 2009 Cover The Book of Dragons World Library Classics Collection |8
January 2010 Cover The Book of Dragons Random House Collection |10
January 2010 Cover The Book of Dragons Random House Collection 175
January 2010 Cover The Book of Dragons Random House Collection 175
March 2012 Cover The Book of Dragons Dover Publications Collection
June 2013 Cover The Book of Dragons CreateSpace Collection
July 2013 Cover The Book of Dragons CreateSpace Collection 89
October 2013 Cover The Book of Dragons Start Publishing Collection |8
May 2017 Cover The Book of Dragons Abela Publishing Collection
October 2022 Cover The Book of Dragons Open Road Integrated Media Collection
April 2024 Cover The Book of Dragons WordFire Press Collection
June 2024 Cover The Book of Dragons WordFire Press Collection
July 2025 Cover Fire in the Sky: Gripping Fairy Tales of Dragons and Fantasy Oldstyle Tales Press Anthology |15