• Publication: A Phantom Lover: A Fantastic StoryPublication Record # 419906
• Author: Vernon Lee
• Date: 1886-08-00
• Publisher: William Blackwood & Sons
• Price:
  1/-^?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: vi+116
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: CHAPBOOK
• Notes:

  • 1st ed.
  • Publication date inferred from "Notes and News", The Academy #744 (1886-08-07) p87, this one noted as "to be published"; and from publisher advertisements below.
  • Publication date (inferred) and price from publisher advertisements: Not found, July. Saturday 1886-08-07: listed under heading" Vernon Lee's New Story. Price One Shilling." (no indication as available or forthcoming), The Athenaeum and The Spectator. Next week -08-14: listed under headings "At All Bookstalls" and "Vernon Lee's New Story", Manchester Guardian and The Spectator.
  • Reviewed at moderate length in "New Novels" by William Wallace, The Academy -08-28 p133-34.
• External IDs:
  • BL: 014815732 002111584
  • Bleiler Supernatural: 988
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 2705939
  • Reginald-1: 08779

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• A Phantom Lover • (1886) • novella by Vernon Lee