• Publication: Maurice, or The Red Jar: A Tale of Magic and Adventure for Boys and GirlsPublication Record # 724394
• Author: The Countess of Jersey
• Date: 1894-10-00
• Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
• Price:
  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: 190
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  1st ed., 1st printing
  • Publication date (inferred) and price from listings in "Publications of the Week", The Spectator 1894-10-20 p534, and in the earliest advertisement "Macmillan & Co.'s New Books", -10-27 in multiple weeklies.
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original front cover (HDL). Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature provides full view of one copy with original cover including spine; front free endpaper inscription closes "Xmas 1894". These appear to be two copies of the same publication, from which the illustrated half-title leaf ("Maurice, Or The Red Jar") is missing from the Baldwin copy. -- title page (Baldwin) -- List of Illustrations lists 9 (frontispiece plus 8 plates not included in the pagination) -- novel spans p1-190 -- two back pages: "Books for Young Readers", Macmillan and Co., London.
• External IDs:
  • BL: 003796426
  • LCCN: 01-16438
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 678886440 35907137 937904936

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• Maurice, or The Red Jar: A Tale of Magic and Adventure for Boys and Girls • juvenile • (1894) • novel by The Countess of Jersey