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The Complete History of the Bastable Family

The text of: The Treasure Seekers, The Wouldbegoods, The New Treasure Seekers

E[dith] Nesbit

This is one of two collected editions of novels which were first issued by T. Fisher Unwin with dust jackets designed by Blampied and which usually used the same illustration as a frontispiece. A U.K. edition published by Ernest Benn is listed by Jisc, but it has not been seen. The book was issued in the U.S.A. under the title The Bastable Children by Coward-McCann Inc of New York using pages printed in Great Britian which used the frontispieces as internal illustrations, only one printed in colour.

E. Nesbit (1858-1924) was a writer and socialist. In 1880 she married Herbert Bland and with him was one of the founder members of The Fabian Society. Bland died in 1914 and she married in 1917 Thomas Terry Tucker.




First collected edition

Bibliography code: BEN-28.1i

Publisher: Ernest Benn Limited

Series: none

Year: 1928

Format: 8vo

Pages: 944

Binding: not seen.

Size: 190 x 130 mm approx

Dust jacket: not seen

Internal illustrations: Frontispiece in colour from The Treasure Seekers; frontispiece from The Would-be-Goods in monochrome on page 258; frontispiece from New Treasure Seekers in monochrome facing page 616; all other line drawings by other artists in individual novels.

Price: not known

Printing history: First collected edition 1928

Printed by: not known

Notes: Contains The Treasure Seekers, The Wouldbegoods, The New Treasure Seekers. Jisc states that the book has 943 pages but the last page, the 944th, is not numbered.

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The Bastable Children

First US collected edition

Bibliography code: BEN-28.1ii

Publisher: Coward-McCann Inc

Series: none

Year: 1928

Format: 8vo

Pages: 944

Binding: Orange cloth with title and author in black on cover; title, author and publisher in black on spine.

Size: 190 x 130 mm approx

Dust jacket: not by Blampied

Price: poss $3.00

Image of dust jacket

Dust jacket of the US edition (click to enlarge)


Internal illustrations: Frontispiece in colour from The Treasure Seekers; frontispiece from The Would-be-Goods in monochrome on page 258; frontispiece from New Treasure Seekers in monochrome facing page 616; all other line drawings by other artists in individual novels.

Printing history: First collected edition 1928

Printed by: Printed in Great Britain

Notes: Contains The Treasure Seekers, The Wouldbegoods, The New Treasure Seekers




The Bastable Children

US collected edition

Bibliography code: BEN-28.1iii

Publisher: Coward-McCann Inc

Series: none

Year: 1928

Format: 8vo

Pages: 944

Binding: not seen

Size: not seen

Dust jacket: not seen

Price: not seen

Internal illustrations: not seen

Printing history: not known

Printed by: not known

Notes: Contains The Treasure Seekers, The Wouldbegoods, The New Treasure Seekers

Image of dust jacket

Dust jacket of another US edition (click to enlarge)