First edition thus of The Magic World by E. Nesbit, a collection of twelve stories by one of the most influential authors of children's literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Written by Edith Nesbit. Illustrated by H. R. Millar and Spencer Pryse. First published by Macmillan & Co., 1912. First published in this facsimile edition 1980 by Mayflower Books, New York.
At the turn of the 20th century, Edith Nesbit (1858 - 1924) was a force in English children's literature, and an interesting person with a full and colorful life. As Gore Vidal wrote in the New York Review of Books in 1964, "After Lewis Carroll, E. Nesbit is the best of the English fabulists who wrote about children (neither wrote for children) and like Carroll she was able to create a world of magic and inverted logic that was entirely her own." In the course of the last one hundred years, her books have never been out of print.
Gore Vidal review:
www.nybooks.com/articles/1964/12/03/the-writing-of-e-nesbit/
The Magic World is a collection of twelve stories first published in 1912 that include stories that would influence writers from C. S. Lewis, Lewis Carroll, and J. R. R. Tolkien to J. K. Rowling.
Contents
1. The Cat-Hood of Maurice
2. The Mixed Mine
3. Accidental Magic
4. The Princess and the Hedge-Pig
5. Septimus Septimusson
6. The White Cat
7. Belinda and Bellamant
8. Justnowland
9. The Related Muff
10. The Aunt and Amabel
11. Kenneth and the Carp
12. The Magician's Heart
Harold Robert Millar (1869 - 1942) was a well-regarded Scottish artist best-known for his illustrations of Nesbit's books. Gerald Spencer Pryse (1882 - 1956) was a famous war artist and illustrator and worked on several of Nesbit's books.
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