• Publication: The Phantom City: A Volcanic RomancePublication Record # 311170
• Author: William Westall
• Date: 1886-07-00
• Publisher: Cassell & Company
• Price:
  5/-^?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: viii+288
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  UK edition, simultaneous with the US or nearly so.
  • Publication date (last week of July) and price from Notice by the publisher: "The Phantom City: a Story of Adventure in the Unexplored Regions of Central America [--note the distinctive subtitle--], by W. Westall, will be published next week, price 5s." --The Spectator 59.3030 (1886-07-24) p1000 Two same-day listings --in "Publications of the Week", on the same page, and in "List of New Books", The Athenaeum #3065 p114-- give the known subtitle "A Volcanic Romance", as cloth and Crown octavo respectively.
  • The full text and images of this edition are available at The HathiTrust Digital Library. -- front cover, black lettering and decoration on red background (apparently uniform with A Queer Race, 1887) -- Contents, p[vii]-viii -- novel spans p[1]-288 -- "Selections from Cassell & Company's Publications", 8 unnumbered back pages In the latter long alphabetical list, this title appears under 'P' as "5s." and three others by Westall appear under 'W' as "Popular Editions. Cloth. 2s. each."
• External IDs:
  • BL: 014831938 003895327
  • Bleiler Early Years: 2358
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 458961701

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• The Phantom City: A Volcanic Romance • (1886) • novel by William Westall