The book was first published in hardcover by William Heinemann in September, 1906, and has been reprinted a number of times since. It was issued by the Modern Library in an unauthorised combined edition with The Book of Wonder under the latter's title in 1918.
The book was illustrated by Dunsany's preferred artist Sidney Sime, who provided ten full-page black and white illustrations,[1] the originals of which are still at Dunsany Castle. These were present in the 1906 and 1922 editions, not in the unauthorised collections and not in most modern reproductions.
The Freeman's Journal described Time and the Gods as "the product of a somewhat bizarre, but not infertile imagination". The review read the work allegorically as a statement on the decline of faith, and attacked it as materialistic, decadent, unhealthy, and unpleasant.[1]