• Publication: Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, Ambassador, Author, and ConjurerPublication Record # 706624
• Author: Robert-Houdin
• Date: 1860-00-00
• Publisher: Chapman & Hall
• Pages: xii+339
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NONFICTION
• Notes:

  • 2nd ed., now in one volume, size 20 cm. Translated by Lascelles Wraxall
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy without original cover: Title page (quote two lines):   Written By Himself.   Second Edition. -- "Translator's Preface", p[iii]-iv, closes "Lascelles Wraxall." (alone). -- "Contents", p[v]-ix, chapters I-XXII only -- "The Overture", p[xi]-x, under heading "Saint Gervais, near Blois, September, 1858", closes "Without further hesitation I begin." -- chapters I-XXII span p[1]-339 -- p[340], "LONDON: Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street and Charing Cross" -- back pages [1]-16: "February, 1860"; "List of Books published by Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly."
  • That publisher's catalogue lists this title twice: • under general heading "In the Press", as "Cheaper Edition" (page 2) • under general heading "Cheap Editions of Works by Popular Authors, handsomely printed in crown octavo, and uniformly bound in cloth", as "In the Press", no edition number or price (page 6, after five listings at prices 5/- and 6/-).
• External IDs:
  • BL: 003115975 017421147
  • LCCN: 33-33815
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 3137985

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