• Publication: Oswald Bastable and OthersPublication Record # 88863
• Author: E. Nesbit
• Date: 1905-00-00
• Publisher: Wells Gardner, Darton & 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+369
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Cover: Oswald Bastable and Others by C. E. Brock and H. R. Millar
• Notes:

  • Publ date inferred from listing in "New Books" The Scotsman 1905-11-27 p2 under "Christmas and Gift Books" (no price; this is not one of about a dozen reviewed)
  • Price from publisher advert "Wells Gardner, Darton, & Co.'s New List." The Scotsman -12-21 p2; this one "Large Crown 8vo, Gilt Top, Cloth Boards, 6/." Also from review Manchester Guardian -12-23 p5 (see Container Title).
  • Other information from a Google scan of a Harvard University original.
  • The title page states "Illustrated by Charles E. Brock and H. R. Millar". However, each illustration is by one or the other, with the applicable signature discernible in each case. (Some of the stories were previously published in The Strand Magazine with illustrations by Millar. Brock also illustrated stories in that monthly magazine.)
  • WorldCat (OCLC, below) reports 22 leaves of plates. List of Illustrations, p.ix-x, lists 23 (frontispiece, title page, and 21 plates not included in the pagination).
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 8454222 48992563

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  Oswald Bastable and Others • interior artwork by C. E. Brock [as by Charles E. Brock]
•  Oswald Bastable and Others • interior artwork by H. R. Millar
• 1 • An Object of Value and Virtue • juvenile • [Bastable Children] • short fiction by E. Nesbit
• 34 • The Arsenicators • juvenile • [Bastable Children] • short fiction by E. Nesbit
• 64 • The Enchanceried House • juvenile • [Bastable Children] • short fiction by E. Nesbit
• 89 • The Runaways • juvenile • [Bastable Children] • short fiction by E. Nesbit
• 123 • Molly, the Measles, and the Missing Will • juvenile • short story by E. Nesbit
• 151 • Billy and William • juvenile • short story by E. Nesbit
• 167 • The Twopenny Spell • juvenile • short story by E. Nesbit
• 181 • Showing Off; or, the Looking-Glass Boy • juvenile • short story by E. Nesbit
• 200 • The Ring and the Lamp • juvenile • (1904) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 224 • The Charmed Life; or, the Princess and the Lift-Man • juvenile • short story by E. Nesbit
• 247 • Billy the King • juvenile • (1904) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 275 • The Princess and the Cat • juvenile • short story by E. Nesbit
• 301 • The White Horse • juvenile • short story by E. Nesbit
• 318 • Sir Christopher Cockleshell • juvenile • short story by E. Nesbit
• 343 • Muscadel • juvenile • (1905) • short story by E. Nesbit