• Publication: The Island of FantasyPublication Record # 718922
• Author: Fergus Hume
• Date: 1893-05-00
• Publisher: Griffith Farran & Co.
• Price:
  3/6^?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: 453
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  New edition
  • WorldCat record OCLC 313339136 (as 1983) reports series "Three-and-sixpenny novels". OCLC 65626643 reports series "Griffith Farran's standard library". One 1892 advertisement (back pages of the 1st ed. viewed at HathiTrust) displays four-line heading:   Griffith Farran & Co.'s   Three-and-Sixpenny Novels   The Standard Library.   Crown 8vo, cloth, about 450 pages, with Frontispiece. OCLC 266992125 (as 543 pages) alone reports the latter ("1 unnumbered leaf of plates (frontispiece) : illustrations").
  • May publication is inferred from weekly newspaper listings. The earliest found are 1893-04-29 (2) as "Publications of the Week" and "List of New Books", -05-13 as received, -05-20 (2) among "New Editions".
• External IDs:
  • BL: 014813987 001765451
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 313339136 9309267 65626643 266992125

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