• Publication: The City of the Jugglers; or, Free-Trade in Souls: A Romance of the "Golden" AgePublication Record # 421859
• Author: W. North
• Date: 1850-06-00
• Publisher: H. J. Gibbs
• Price:
  10/6^?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: xii+250
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • Publication date and price from the earliest notice found in 1850 newspapers, The Athenaeum #1180 (1850-06-08) p621, advertisement as "Now ready, price 10s. 6d."
  • University of South Carolina, University Libraries Digital Collections, provides full view of one copy including original, non-pictorial front cover (image 670, first in series for this book). -- title page displays in part (quote):   By W. North, Author of "Anti-Coningsby," [...] &c., &c.   With four highly finished etchings, by F. H. T. Bellew. -- Prologue, p. vii-xii (verse, closing "June, 1850.   W. N.") -- narrative, p[1]-250 -- publisher advertisements, p[253-56] Unusually the series of 277 images are numbers 670-946 in sequence. Spine and back covers are missing. Some front pages (perhaps blank) must be missing, because the first three images show front cover, frontispiece illustration, and title page.
  • "5 unnumbered leaves of plates" --WorldCat (OCLC, below), probably a miscount 4 etchings by Bellew (per title page, above) There is no list of illustrations or plates. The index of images lists "Image Recto" and "Image Verso" between page numbers 78/79, 164/65, 216/17; that is, three plates not included in the pagination. Including frontispiece, images of the four engraved illustrations are id/# 671, 762, 851, 904 (out of context, all non-genre).
• External IDs:
  • BL: 002673182
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1008421015

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• The City of the Jugglers; or, Free-Trade in Souls: A Romance of the "Golden" Age • novel by William North [as by W. North]