• Publication: The Princess and CurdiePublication Record # 422796
• Author: George MacDonald
• Date: 1883-00-00
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• 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: vi+255
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes: 1st ed. (published for the 1882 Christmas season, reportedly as 1883) OCLC 561808920: " 1883 [1882]" OCLC 21404897: -- "vi, 255 pages, [11] leaves of plates" -- "with eleven illustrations by James Allen" Price from advertisement of publisher's new books, earliest-dated All the Year Round 1882-08-26 p4 -- "With 12 illustrations. Small crown 8vo, cloth extra, 5s. [Just ready." Capsule review The Saturday Review 1882-11-25 p711 "Christmas Books: I.": "Christmas Books seem to come out now rather late in September, so eager are authors and publishers to take Time by the forelock. ..."
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 561808920 21404897
  • Reginald-1: 15837
  • Reginald-3: 15837

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• The Princess and Curdie • juvenile • [The Princess and the Goblin • 2] • (1877) • novel by George MacDonald