• Publication: The Island of FantasyPublication Record # 718921
• Author: Fergus Hume
• Date: 1892-06-13
• Publisher: Griffith Farran & Co.
• Price:
  31/6^?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: 288+301+299
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  1st ed. 3 volumes
  • HathiTrust Digital Library (catalog record) provides full view of two copies (3 vols each) with apparently identical interiors. The front covers (3 each) are radically different and those from U California look certainly original. Contents (numbered pages 8, 5, 5) list chapters I-XIII, XIV-XXVI, XXVII-XL. Text spans pp. 9-288, 7-301, 7-[299]. Volume III alone contains back material, publisher advertisements p[301-04]. This publication is not listed.
  • Publication date from notice in The Athenaeum #3372 (Saturday 1892-06-11) p774: Messrs. "announce that on Monday next they will publish ...". The Scotsman Monday 1892-06-13 lists it among "new books that came out last week".
  • Price from listing in "Publications of the Week", The Spectator -06-11 p819, as "3vols, cr 8vo 31/6". That is 10/6 each volume.
• External IDs:
  • BL: 014813986 001765450
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 31586346 10518351

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• The Island of Fantasy • (1892) • novel by Fergus Hume