Scans, and new illustrations found

Thanks to the magic of interlibrary loan, I managed to find an edition of the Island of the Nine Whirlpools with illustrations that I haven't found digitized yet.

Scan, scan.

These illustrations are very cute. Here are some notable pages from the sections I have pointed out in the prior posts as well.

Here is the queen and the witch turned to stone, and that plaque with that darn math problem. I still haven't figured out what Nesbit was trying to say with it.

I like the dress of the queen here. The witch is illustrated in this version as a very traditional, pointy hat witch.

I just find the dot eyes in this illustration funny for some reason.

All these illustration were made by Faith Jaques, a fairly noteable children's illustrator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Jaques

The book was published by Kaye and Ward, a now defunct children's book publishing company.

Weirdly, the first search result for them is the Thomas the Tank Engine wiki. My life is very weird.

As such, I'm not really sure how copyright for the illustration or for this edition is. I have a full digital scan of the book, but maybe I'll figure something out on how to fully document it.

Final note: This edition claims to have been published January first, 1970. Now, I was weirded out by this date as it's also Epoch time (so I wondered if something weird was going on with a database somewhere), but as the book only says it was published in 1970, it probably was actually published during this time and the month and day were just noted as the first day of the year.