• Publication: Klosterheim, or The MasquePublication Record # 241825
• Author: The English Opium-Eater
• Date: 1832-00-00
• Publisher: William Blackwood & T. Cadell
• Price:
  7/-^?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: 305
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • 1832 issues include the "First ed. Cf. Green" (OCLC 36924434). WorldCat records (OCLC, below) contain notes that imply multiple issues as 1832, distinguished by front and back pages. The digital copy assembled at HathiTrust contains no half-title page, no advertisements, and identifies the printer at the back --not the 1st ed.
  • Six reviews or critical notices (not advertisements or listings) are found by automated search for "Klosterheim" in April to June newspapers and magazines at ProQuest.com (November 2019, subscription required). The earliest hits of any kind are two such, both exceptionally negative: 1832-04-28, The Spectator p398/99 and The Literary Gazette p263.
  • Price from listing in "Works Lately Published", Westminster Review 1832-07 p264, as "Foolscap. 7s. bds." (boards).
  • HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) provides full view of one copy without original cover: -- title page: Blackwood of Edinburgh; Cadell of London -- narrative, p[3]-305 -- p[306], printer statement (three lines) "Edinburgh: Printed by Ballantyne and Company, Paul's Work, Canongate."
• External IDs:
  • BL: 001985880
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 977181331 1008066442 36924434

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• Klosterheim, or The Masque • novel by Thomas De Quincey [as by The English Opium-Eater]