a belligerent member of Kay's Mr Kay, the fussy and ineffective housemaster of Kay's House Mr Blackburn, the popular housemaster of Blackburn's House Publication history The story was serialised in The Captain in six parts from October 1904 to March 1905, with illustrations by T. M. R. Whitwell. The original novel included eight of Whitwell's illustrations. The novel also has a short preface by Wodehouse, and has the dedication, "To my father". The American edition was issued from imported sheets by Macmillan, New York in 1922. The Head of Kay's was included in The Gold Bat and Other Stories, a book published by Penguin Books in 1986 which also contains two other school novels by Wodehouse, The Gold Bat (1904) and The White Feather (1907). References Notes Sources External links The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with numerous book covers and a list of characters 1905 British novels 1905 children's books British children's novels Novels by P. G. Wodehouse Novels set in schools Novels first published in serial form Works originally published in The Captain (magazine) A & C Black books