- Publication: Pope Jacynth and Other Fantastic TalesPublication Record # 419959
- Author: Vernon Lee
- Date: 1904-10-00
- Publisher: Grant Richards
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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
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Format: hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
- Type: COLLECTION
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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:
Collection Title:
Pope Jacynth and Other Fantastic Tales • (1904) • collection by
Vernon Lee
Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)
- 3 • Pope Jacynth • (1904) • short story by Vernon Lee
- 21 • Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady • (1896) • novella by Vernon Lee
- 115 • A Wedding Chest • (1904) • short story by Vernon Lee
- 139 • The Lady and Death: A Companion Piece to Dürer's Print • (1904) • short story by Vernon Lee (variant of The Lady and Death)
- 171 • St. Eudĉmon and His Orange-Tree • (1904) • short story by Vernon Lee
- 195 • The Featureless Wisdom • (1904) • short story by Vernon Lee
Secondary Verifications
| Source | Status | Verifier | Date |
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| Bleiler Early Years | Not Verified | ||
| Bleiler Supernatural | Not Verified | ||
| Bleiler1 (Gernsback) | N/A | Rtrace | 2013-06-13 06:58:46 |
| Bleiler78 | Verified | Rtrace | 2013-06-13 06:58:46 |
| Clute/Grant | Verified | Rtrace | 2013-06-13 06:58:46 |
| Clute/Nicholls | N/A | Rtrace | 2013-06-13 06:58:46 |
| Contento1 (anth/coll) | N/A | Rtrace | 2013-06-13 06:58:46 |
| Currey | N/A | Rtrace | 2013-06-13 06:58:46 |
| Locus1 | N/A | Rtrace | 2013-06-13 06:58:46 |
| Miller/Contento | N/A | Rtrace | 2013-06-13 06:58:46 |
| OCLC/Worldcat | Verified | Rtrace | 2013-06-13 06:58:46 |
| Reginald1 | Verified | Rtrace | 2013-06-13 06:58:46 |
| Reginald3 | N/A | Rtrace | 2013-06-13 06:58:46 |
| Tuck | N/A | Rtrace | 2013-06-13 06:58:46 |
