Nine Unlikely Tales for Children

Overview:

  • Title: Nine Unlikely Tales for Children
  • Author: E. Nesbit
  • Year: 1901
  • Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin
  • Price: 6/-
  • Pages: xiii+297
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Melisande, or Long and Short Division
  • Notes:
    • 1st ed.
    • Publication date inferred from "Christmas Books" The Scotsman 1901-09-23 p3 "Already, while the leaves have hardly yet begun to fall, the 'Christmas book' ... has made its appearance ..."; this one of several reviewed in that column. Price from publisher advert "T. Fisher Unwin's Books. For Christmas Presents." Manchester Guardian 1901-12-17 p4
    • Full cover image from Amazon UK 2017-03-07, as Unwin 1st ed. 1901, with others including title page that shows (three lines, all caps):   Pictured by Claude Shepperson,   H. R. Millar and Others, and   with a frontispiece by A. L. Bowley and below unsigned illustration shows (three lines, no date):   London   T. Fisher Unwin   Adelphi Terrace
    • Probably the three stamped illustrations on back, spine, and front are three from 1st publications of the stories in magazines, separately illustrated by Shepperson, Millar, et al. (no joint work)