Five Children and It

Overview:

  • Title: Five Children and It
  • Author: E. Nesbit
  • Year: 1905
  • Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Co.
  • Price: $
  • Pages: xii+311
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Five Children and It
  • Notes: 1st US ed. (? (c)1905; earlier not found at WorldCat 2017-02-25; sequel published 1904 UK and US ?) LCCN links copyright deposit e-copy at hdl.loc.gov (HDL.LOC) OCLC: illustrations uncredited
      HDL.LOC provides full view of 1 copy with plain blue cloth cover, copyright deposit (1905-11-10 copy B per local note on copyright page)
    • title page states "Illustrated" (nowhere credited)
    • copyright page states (c)1905 by publisher "Published October, 1905"
    • Note, p[vi]: "parts" published as "THE PSAMMEAD" (9-part serial) See Title Reference.
    • Contents, vii, lists 11 chapters
    • Illustrations, ix-xii, lists 47? (frontispiece plus 46 by manual count) All are b/w drawings, with captions (all from the text?). Many are plainly signed "H.R. Millar 1902", many plausibly so. The same is true of the serial "Illustrations by H.R. Millar". All may be, and many certainly are, those from the serial reproduced at full-page size. See Title Reference.
    • Novel spans p[1]-311 with plates not included in the pagination