• Publication: The Old Nursery StoriesPublication Record # 609051
• Author: E. Nesbit
• Date: 1908-00-00
• Publisher: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton
• Pub. Series: The Children's Bookcase
• Pub. Series #: 1
• Price:
  1/6^?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: 165
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • Published for the 1907 Christmas season (presumably as 1908 per title page)
  • WorldCat (OCLC, below) reports -- Contents, 9 stories in sequence below -- "color frontispiece, 11 color plates"
  • Price from The Scotsman 1907-11-23 p13 "Christmas Publications", this one of 3 nursery books for the season, from Mr HF and Messrs H&S "in co-operation" at this price; "In point of artistic beauty ... a marvellous production."
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 4562372

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  The Old Nursery Stories • interior artwork by W. H. Margetson
• Cinderella • short fiction by E. Nesbit
• Beauty and the Beast • short fiction by E. Nesbit
• Jack the Giant-Killer • short fiction by E. Nesbit
• Puss in Boots • short fiction by E. Nesbit
• Jack and the Beanstalk • juvenile • short fiction by E. Nesbit
• Dick Whittington and His Cat • short fiction by E. Nesbit
• The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood • short fiction by E. Nesbit
• The White Cat • (1907) • short story by E. Nesbit
• Hop-o'-My-Thumb • short fiction by E. Nesbit