• Publication: Pope Jacynth and Other Fantastic TalesPublication Record # 419959
• Author: Vernon Lee
• Date: 1904-10-00
• Publisher: Grant Richards
• Price:
  3/6^?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: 200
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • 1st ed.
  • Publication date and price from The Athenaeum #4018 (1904-10-29) p572, "From Mr. Grant Richards's List"; this one noted "[Ready."
  • Contents below are from the 1907 John Lane edition (see), a stated "Second Edition" with identical page-count. Grant Richards went out of business in 1905. John Lane may have acquired some rights and plates.
  • That 1907 Second Edition shows: -- "Pope Jacynth & Other Fantastic Tales" (title page ampersand) -- "The Lady and Death: A Companion Piece to Dürer's Print" (title and small-size subtitle displayed at the head of the fourth story). For this edition, WorldCat record OCLC 4322309 shows matching data except: -- Pope Jacynth : and Other Fantastic Tales (heading) -- The Lady and Death (from Contents list)
  • British Library records do fashion the title of this edition "Pope Jacynth, and other fantastic tales." (BL, below) and that of the Second Edition with ampersand (BL 002111589).
• External IDs:
  • BL: 002111588
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 4322309 14199159
  • Reginald-1: 08781

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