• Publication: The Magic WorldPublication Record # 88891
• Author: E. Nesbit
• Date: 1912-10-00
• Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
• Price:
  6/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: x+280
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes: 1st ed. Publ date (inferred), price, and illustrations from publisher adverts "Macmillan's New Books" The Observer 1912-10-27 p7 and "New Book for the Young" The Scotsman -10-28 p2 --both as "Crown 8vo. 6s." HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy without original cover -- title page credits Millar and Pryse -- dedication signed "Well Hall, Kent, // 1912." -- Illustrations, ix-x, lists 24 (frontispiece plus 23 plates not included in the pagination) -- collection spans p1-280 -- p281-84, publisher adverts of other children's books Particular illustrations are not credited and some are unsigned (including all 3 by Pryse, for "The Princess and the Hedge-Pig"), but all are known. See the interior artwork record.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 9312375

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  The Magic World • interior artwork by H. R. Millar and Spencer Pryse
• 1 • The Cat-Hood of Maurice • (1907) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 27 • The Mixed Mine • (1908) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 58 • Accidental Magic • (1912) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 96 • The Princess and the Hedge-Pig • (1912) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 126 • Septimus Septimusson • (1912) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 148 • The White Cat • (1907) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 160 • Belinda and Bellamant • (1912) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 185 • Justnowland • short story by E. Nesbit
• 206 • The Related Muff • (1905) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 218 • The Aunt and Amabel • (1909) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 233 • Kenneth and the Carp • (1909) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 260 • The Magician's Heart • (1912) • short story by E. Nesbit