• Publication: Babylon Electrified: The History of an Expedition Undertaken to Restore Ancient Babylon by the Power of Electricity, and How It ResultedPublication Record # 291704
• Author: A. Bleunard
• Date: 1890-00-00
• Publisher: Chapman & Hall
• Price:
  12/-^?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: 304
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes: Data from Bleiler's "Science-Fiction: The Early Years". Pricing comes from a Chapman & Hall ad in the back of Sketches of Hindoo life, by Devendra Nath Das. The full text and images of this edition are available at The HathiTrust Digital Library.
• External IDs:
  • Bleiler Early Years: 228
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 18924231

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• Babylon Electrified: The History of an Expedition Undertaken to Restore Ancient Babylon by the Power of Electricity, and How It Resulted • (1889) • novel by Albert Bleunard (trans. of La Babylone electrique 1888) [as by A. Bleunard]