Citation: George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind (London: Strahan & Co., 1871).

Bulloch (1925):

At the back of the north wind. By George MacDonald.
London: Strahan & Co. 1871 (1870).
8vo, PP- viii + 378 + 6 adv., with 76 illustrations in the text by Arthur Hughes.
This story, which Dr. Greville MacDonald says remains his father’s “best seller,” —he analyses it in “George MacDonald and his wife ” (pp. 362-363)—appeared serially as by the author of “Dealings with the fairies,” in Good Words for the Young (Nov. 1868-Oct., 1869),
with Hughes’s illustrations : i., 15-19, 113-116, 178-182, 295-299,386-390, 440-443, 540-543, 574-575: i., 22-28,83-88, 147-153, 202-209,243-250, 298-306, 377-383, 424-433, 466-474, 527-534, 584-590,661-668.

  • 1871. Published by Routledge, New York; 12 mo (American Cat.).
  • 1872. Published by Strahan.
  • 1873. Published by Daldy, Isbister.
  • 1874. Published by Strahan: 3s. 6d.
  • (1886). Published by Blackie, with the Hughes illustrations; 8vo, pp. vi + 378: 5s.
  • 1900 (1899). Published by Blackie, with the Hughes illustrations; 8vo, pp. (vi) + 378 + frontispiece by Laurence Housman.
  • 1911 (1910). Published by Blackie with the Hughes illustrations; 8vo, pp. 391 + (1) + 12 coloured plates by Frank C. Pape, and end papers.
  • 1914. Simplified by Elizabeth Lewis, and published in the George MacDonald Stories for Little Folks series, by Lippincott, Philadelphia; illustrated.
  • 1919. Published by David Mackay, Philadelphia, with illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith : 8vo, pp. 342.
  • 1924. Published by the Macmillan Company, New York, with 13 illustrations by F. D. Bedford, pp. 376.
  • N.D. Published by Burt, New York: Dalton, New York: Lippincott, Philadelphia: McKay, Philadelphia.

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