The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts

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Title: The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts
Author: Hugh Lofting
Year: 1923
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Company
Pages: xviii+180
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Title Reference: The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Notes: 1st ed., 14th printing Data from e-copy at HathiTrust Digital Library. This is the earliest printing found at HDL December 2016.
- lacks original cover (inferred from HDL copy of 15th printing, November 1923, with original cover that apparently matches one sometimes displayed as that of the first printing/issue/edition inconsistently) April 2018: This is not conclusive. The frontispiece of this 14th printing matches both front cover illustration and frontispiece of that 15th printing, "The Farewell Feast", but frontispiece and front cover paste-down(?) illustrations may have been changed independently. See the Cover record for more information. --Pwendt
- color frontispiece (same illustration as inferred cover)
- title page illustrated
- copyright page (1923) provides complete printing history
- Introduction to the Tenth Printing, p.vii-xii, signed "Hugh Walpole"
- List of Illustrations, [xv]-xvi; lists frontispiece plus 32 including "A little town called Puddleby-on-the Marsh", xviii (facing p[1], later sometime frontispiece)
- text spans p1-180
- List of Illustrations implies 2 plates not included in the pagination, 1 missing from this copy and 1 present facing p142. Many others listed are full-page b/w drawings included in the pagination. Smaller illustrations appear to be listed if they are captioned.