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Bed-Time Stories


This is one many titles published by Thomas Nelson and Sons which reproduced drawings by Blampied from earlier titles. This book used a single line drawing from Blam's Book of Fun.



First edition, thus

Bibliography code: NEL-24.5

Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons

Series: not known

Year: [1924]

Format: 4to

Pages: 24

Binding: printed boards backed with red cloth; rear cover of adverts for Nelson's children's annuals

Size: 260 x 199 mm

Cover: not by Blampied

Dust jacket: possibly issued in one, but not seen

Internal illustrations: one unsigned line drawing by Blampied from Blam’s Book of Fun on page 19 showing fat farmer with ear-ring pushing three children in a wheel barrow.

Source of illustrations: Blam's Book of Fun.

Price: not known

Printing history: none

Printed by: Printed in Great Britain at the Press of the Publishers

Notes: This title listed in Jisc is dated 1919, but the illustration was not published in Blam's Book of Fun until 1921, while my copy has a inscription dated 1924. I have taken the year of publication to be 1924.

Image of cover

Cover of book, not by Blampied (click to enlarge)