• Publication: "Bones and I"; or, The Skeleton at HomePublication Record # 615678
• Author: G. J. Whyte-Melville
• Date: 1868-06-00
• Publisher: Chapman & Hall
• Price:
  9/-^?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: v+287
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • 1st ed. This is the 1st ed. as a book, and the last two chapters may be published here for the first time (see the novel record).
  • Publication date and price from "List of New Books", The Athenaeum 2121 (1868-06-20) p862-63; this one "cr. 8vo. 9/ cl." That is: crown octavo paper size, price 9s., cloth (? some hard cloth cover inferred, as another listing states "cl. limp"). "Chapman & Hall's List", one week earlier in The Athenaeum 2120 p841 and two other weeklies, lists this book with flushright closing note "[This day." (Saturday -06-13).
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy without original cover: -- title page begins "Bones and I;" -- Contents, p[iv]-v -- text spans p[1]-287; p287 footer "London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street and Charing Cross."
• External IDs:
  • BL: 002454857
  • LCCN: 12040461
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 3494064
  • Reginald-1: 15287

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• "Bones and I"; or, The Skeleton at Home • (1868) • novel by G. J. Whyte-Melville