- Publication: Phantastes A Faerie RomancePublication Record # 720268
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Author:
George MacDonald
- Date: 1894-10-00
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Publisher: Chatto & Windus
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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).
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Format:
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
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Type: NOVEL
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Notes:
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance.
By George [...]
A New Edition.
With 25 Illustrations by J. Bell.
Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3s. 6d.
--components of the listing in "Chatto & Windus's New Books", 1994/95
October publication is inferred from the closing annotation "[Shortly." in the earliest listings found, 1894-09-22 and -09-29, and no annotation thereafter (e.g. The Athenaeum #3493 1894-10-06 p443, one of many under "New Library Novels").
Brief review in Saturday Review #2033 1894-10-13 p419 states "... it is a pleasure to revive our recollections of the shadow-haunted Anodos in the pretty edition before us, which Mr. Bell has illustrated with considerable sympathy and grace."
This may be the edition destroyed by Greville Macdonald.
British Library records (BL, below) use an ambiguous ellipsis, which hints the long original subtitle. Publisher advertisements use the short subtitle "A Faerie Romance".
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