• Publication: Dion and the Sibyls: A Romance of the First CenturyPublication Record # 576139
• Author: Miles Gerald Keon
• Date: 1866-02-00
• Publisher: Richard Bentley
• Price:
  21/-^?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).
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • 1st ed. 2 volumes
  • Publication date from "Mr. Bentley's List", The Athenaeum 1999 (1866-02-17) p228; this one as "post 8vo." (post octavo) and "[End of month." --and subsequent weekly issues, without the latter annotation. --supported by the next item
  • Price from "List of New Publications for the Week", London Review 12.296 (1866-03-03) p265; as "Cr. 8vo." (crown octavo)
  • Post octavo? Two eds./formats and prices are possible. Crown octavo is a common book size, perhaps the most common. Wikipedia lists several other octavo specifications not including "post octavo". Numerous advertisements in early 1866 newspapers state "post 8vo.", none with a price quotation. (No price quotation found 2018-12-19, except the one reported above, as "Cr. 8vo.")
  • Weekly advertisements of "Mr. Bentley's List" in The Athenaeum consistently list this publication so:   Dion and the Sibyls: A Novel.   By Miles Gerald Keon, Col. Sec. Bermuda. 2 vols. post 8vo. [Colonial Secretary Bermuda] and consistently identify Mr. Bentley in the footer:   Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, W.,   Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
  • Reginald1 gives publisher Bentley Bros.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 22204152
  • Reginald-1: 08186

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• Dion and the Sibyls: A Romance of the First Century • (1866) • novel by Miles Gerald Keon