• Publication: Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, Ambassador, Author, and ConjurerPublication Record # 706553
• Author: Robert-Houdin
• Date: 1859-05-28
• Publisher: Chapman & Hall
• 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).
• Pages: xiv+293+271
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NONFICTION
• Notes:

  • 1st ed. Translated by Lascelles Wraxall Two volumes
  • Publication date and price from listing in "Chapman & Hall's New Works", The Athenaeum 1648 (1859-05-28) p721; this one as "[This day." In recent weekly issues, comparable advertisements, this one is "[In the Press." (#1642, 1645) and finally "[Next week." (#1647).
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy without original cover: Title pages of both volumes display (quote three lines):   Written By Himself.   Copyright Edition.   In Two Volumes.--Vol. I. [or II] -- "Translator's Preface", I: p[iii]-v, closes "Lascelles Wraxall." and "Kensington, May, 1859." -- "Contents of Vol. I", p[vii]-x -- "The Overture", p[xi]-xiv, under heading "Saint Gervais, near Blois, September, 1858", closes "Without further hesitation I begin." -- chapters I-XIII span p[1]-293 -- Vol. II, chapters I-IX span p[1]-271 The HathiTrust file suggests that pp. [1]-4 are printed on four one-side leaves. Both volumes close with the presumable printer statement: "C. Whiting, Beaufort House, Strand." (no other back material).
  • Two 1859 editions? British Library (BL, below) identifies the translator only in that record BL 003115974 which does not state "Copyright edition", thus: : "[Translated by Sir F. C. L. L. Wraxall, Bart.]" WorldCat record OCLC 1008343809 may also report an 1859 edition distinct from the Copyright Edition.
• External IDs:
  • BL: 006809615 003115974
  • LCCN: 33-16892
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 3195434 1008343809

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• iii • Translator's Preface (Memoirs of Robert-Houdin) • (1859) • essay by Lascelles Wraxall