• Publication: The Peter Pan Picture BookPublication Record # 580463
• Authors: J. M. Barrie, Daniel O'Connor (I)
• Date: 1907-10-00
• Publisher: George Bell & Sons
• Price:
  -/5^?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+62+[28]
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: CHAPBOOK
• Notes:

  • 1st ed.
  • Library records (LCCN and WorldCat, below) report: -- illustrated endpapers and title page -- 28 color plates [frontispiece plus 27 interior color plates], "Each plate preceded by leaf with descriptive letterpress" -- "An amended version of The Peter-Pan keepsake, following the story of J. M. Barrie's play. cf. Pref." ["keepsake" may be printed material distributed at performances of the 1904 play]
  • Publication date (inferred) and price from listing in "Books Received" Manchester Guardian 1907-10-12 p7; and from brief review The Scotsman 1907-10-17 p2: "a 'plum' among the gift books of the season"; O'Connor's is "an amended version of the story of Mr. Barrie's fairy play as already told in the 'Peter Pan Keepsake'."
  • OCLC 45597498 reports the 1998 microfiche reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library (Opie collection of children's literature; 029:315).
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 9048363 ca14-242
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 45597498

Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• The Peter Pan Picture Book • juvenile • [Peter Pan] • (1907) • short fiction by J. M. Barrie and Daniel O'Connor (I) (variant of The Story of Peter Pan)