User:Pwendt/Publishers/Cassell

created 2019-03-11 by export of notes from homepage, then section 1 User:Pwendt#February 2019

[1] Am Bk 1886-02-15 --one in a series on Cassell & Company, 4 pages

CASSELL'S NATIONAL LIBRARY

1887-07-09 parenthetical due dates #80 1887-07-18, #79 1887-07-11 (Mondays)

weekly implies #1 second week of January 1886

weekly implies July 4=#78; 27 20 13 6, May 30, 23, [16=#71, 9, 2 =#69; April 25, 18, 11, 4, March 28 21 14 7=#61; Feb 28 21 14 7, Jan 31 24 17 10 3; Dec 27=#51 20 13 6, Nov 29 22 15 8 1=#43; Oct 25 18 11=#40 4, Sep 27 20 13 6; Aug 30 23 16 9 2=#30, Jul 26 19 12 5, Jun 28 21 14 7, May 31 24=#20 17 10 3, Apr 26 19 12 5, Mar 29 22 15=#10 8 1, Feb 22 15 8 1, Jan 25 18 11 4=#0

1885 (5 hits)

The Academy, Notes and News 1885-09-12 #697 "arranged to publish immediately" "They will contain 192 pages, small octavo, in coloured wrapper, and will be issued weekly at threepence each."

same -12-05 #709 p75 "On December 21 will be published the first ..."

same -12-12 #711 p.ix, advertises the first weekly volume, ready Dec 21

2019-03-09, pursue all publications in The Athenaeum, some others (UK); American Bookseller, N-Y Trib, The Sun

1886 (Jan to Mar, 52 hits) Apr--Jun, 54; Jul--Sep, 39; Oct--Dec, 34

• 1886-01-02, The Athenaeum, Our Library Table --#1 in hand
• 01-23 The Spectator [2] "now publishing, in weekly volumes, price 3d each."; "also published in cloth, 6d each."

no dates, "First list of volumes now publishing" (8 later known as #1-8)

• -01-30 The Spectator p162 #8 named
• -02-20 The Spectator p272 lists #8--1 and ready Feb 24th #9, Mar 3rd #10 [3] (8th and 9th Wednesdays of the year)
• -03-06 The Athenaeum p344 lists #10--1 (10th Saturday)
• -03-20 The Spectator p404 lists #12--1
• -04-10 The Athenaeum p499 lists #16--1 (15th Saturday)

King Solomon's Mines 16th thousand, 5/- ; 1887-07-09 48th thousand, 5-/

• -05-08 The Athenaeum p632 lists #20--1 (on 19th Saturday)
• -06-05 The Athenaeum p764 lists #24--1

NO LISTING YET NUMBERS the volumes --AND adverts in The Athenaeum now cease?

• -12-25 The Athenaeum p861 recent editions include #46 47 49 51 (unnumbered)

note #52 A Christmas Carol; #53 The Christian Year, John Keble

1887 NOW NUMBERED

• -01-08 [4] The Athenaeum p80 "Now Ready, The First Year's Issue of Cassell's National Library." --list #1 to #52; 31/6 for the set, cloth, "in a handsome Oak Bookcase" ; "Vols of the Second Year's Issue now ready" #53-55
• -03-05 The Athenaeum p336 Cassell's Announcements include "Recent Volumes": #63--53

King Solomon's 40th thousand

• -03-19 The Athenaeum p385 Literary Gossip: #71 due -04-25, the first two books of Angel in the House "the first work of a living author"
• -03-26 The Academy p219 #70 due Apr 25th, Patmore by permission of the author ... the first work by a living author that has appeared in the "National Library."
• -04-09 The Athenaeum p" " "Vol. 70 ... (ready April 25 ..." "recently appeared" #68/69--59
• -05-07 The Athenaeum p624 Cassell's Announcements "Vol. 70 ... (now ready,

King Solomon's 43rd thousand

• -06-18 The Athenaeum p801 Literary Gossip. "Another copyright work" to appear: poem My Beautiful Lady, to be revised, as #82 due -07-18

Anstey contributes to The Graphic, Christmas number

• -07-09 #82--1
• -08-06 The Athenaeum p196 "List of Recent Volumes" #79--85, the last "[Ready August 8."
• -09-03 The Athenaeum p312 The Coming Publishing Season: Cassell's National Library: Plutarch, Keats, Lobo, and 'Sintram and His Cmopanions, and Aslauga's Knight' by De la Motte Fouque'

AmBk notes the same four in English Announcements -10-15 p259

1888

• -04-14 The Athenaeum p479 Announcements --same as the next, but subtle
• -04-28 The Athenaeum p549, Notice: #122 The Victories of Love, part 2 of The Angel in the House (#70, quickly 4 large editions) ... 122 volumes now ready

same in The Spectator -04-21 p556

• -07-14 The Athenaeum p75 Announcements lists Cassell's Red Library monthly #1--44; National Library weekly #105-34 (30) [5]

King Solomon's, with full-page by Walter Paget, 63rd thousand

• -12-17 Manchester Guardian, now another Plutarch and Shakespeare's Cymbeline

1889

• -01-19 The Spectator p104, Recent Volumes #157-161 "N.B. Volumes 1 to 156 of [CNL] form the first Three Years' Issues."
• -02-09 The Athenaeum p191, List of the Fourth Year's Volumes already published: #157-64 (8)
• -03-09 The Athenaeum p328, #162-68
• -03-16 The Spectator p384, #162-69
• -04-13 The Athenaeum p483 #174--159; due April 29, copyright work #175 Aubrey de Vere The Legends of St. Patrick
• -05-11 The Athenaeum p616 Announcements

King Solomon's 63rd thousand

• -08-31 The Academy p134, another copyright work due as #193 Monday next, F. T. Palgrave's Visions of England
• -12-01 p8 -The Observer 200 volumes now ready

US

• -03-27 N-Y Trib $0.10, cloth $0.25; new volumes #8 Plutarch's, #9 Otranto (differs from the later British numbering)

those two in New Novels, The Sun -04-06 p1

• -05-15 N-Y Trib new vols unnumbered (later #12--16)

• -11-05 The Sun, now Macbeth and Australian Travels
• -11-18 The Sun, #41 Pope early poems
• -11-20 The Sun, #42 Samuel Pepys
• -11-30 The Sun, now Bravo of Venice

1887

• -03-11 The Sun, #55 by James Sheridan Knowles
• -03-30 The Sun, now Macaulay's Lays and Sermons
• -04-19 The Sun, now Rosalind and Isaac Becherstaf

-04-21 Advance (Chicago), five of the latest, uk#59, 61-64

• -04-28 The Sun, #64 Gebir and Count Julian
• -05-11 The Sun, #60 Samuel Pepys, part 2
• -05-19 The Sun, now Discovery of Guiana by Raleigh (fatal to him)

same is "the latest" per Advance, same day

• -06-01 The Sun, now The Angel in the House, revised; and De Quincey's essays "Murder as One of the Fine Arts" and "The English Mail Coach"

-06-09 Advance, Books Received: Paper Covers (5), inclg Crotchet Castle by Peacock, Murder by De Quincey --both US only?

• -07-30 The Sun, now Pope and Young (#75-76)

-09-08 Advance (five, inclg #78-79 81-82)

-09-22 Advance (two)

-10-06 Advance (one) received King Henry VIII

• -10-18 The Sun, now King Henry VIII
• -10-28 The Sun, now MacAulay's "Warren Hastings" =uk #1
• -11-18 The Sun, now Human Nature by Bishop Butler

-11-24 Advance (one) received Sintram

1888

-04-05 Advance (two) received Fox and another Pepys

-04-26 Advance (one) received Much Ado

• -05-26 The Sun, now Jewell [#115] and J.F.C. Hecker, The Black Death

AmBk (American Bookseller)

Literary Notes -01-15 "[CC] are about to bring out in this country the series of reprints ... ... everything, indeed, that is especially worth preservation--and is not now copyrighted." subscription $5.00

[6] American Bookseller 1886-02-01 --now ready #2, in press #3-7, "other volumes in preparation"; annual 52 @ $5.00

-03-15 p138

US series numbers

0401p149 advert #8-10 =uk 9-11 ; 10c and 25c

0415p212 Letter from Henry Morley on Cassell's / Routledge conflict, as he edits one series for each (Routledge's Universal); alludes to two Cassell's delayed for conflict [7]

p206 news item on same [8]

0501p225 advert numbers #1 to #15 =uk 2 6 4 5 7 3 8 9 10 11 11=12 [12-13 Trenck I-II =uk 26-27] 14=13 15=14 (King Solomon's Mines is 1 of 4 new in the Rainbow Series (large, illuminated paper covers, 25c)

0701p4 #18-23=uk 17-22 ; Lovell's --

0715

0801p94 #24-27 ; Lovell's --

0815p112 #28-29 =uk 29-30 ; Lovell's 752-62

0901p127 #30-31 =uk 31-32 ; Lovell's 763-83

0915p157 #32-33 =uk 33 [34] 35 ; Lovell's 784-92

1001p228 #34-35 =uk 34 36 ; Lovell's --

1015p256 #36-37 =uk 37 38 ; Lovell's --

p268 London Correspondence dated 1886-10-01 notes Cassell "announcementes" uk #37-40 unnumbered

1101p314 #38-41 =uk 39 40 [41] 43 42 ; Lovell's --

1115

1201p531 #42-44 =uk 41 44 45 ; Lovell's --

1215p558 #45-46 =uk 46 47 ; Lovell's 823-37

1887 (Jan--Mar, 33 hits) Apr--Jun, 34; Jul--Sep, 23; Oct--Dec, 25

0101p5 #47-49 =uk 48-50 ; Lovell's 838-50

0115p28 #50-51 =uk 51-52 ; --

0201p52 #52 =uk 53 ; Lovell's 851-76

p47 Advertisement lists #1-52 [9] --concludes with UK #52-53

0215p124 #53-55 =uk 54-56; Lovell's 877-95

0301

0315p184 #58-59 =uk 59-60 ; Lovell's 896-917

0401p208 #60-61 =uk 61-62 ; Lovell's 918-33

0415p254 #62-63 =uk 63-64* ; Lovell's 934-41 (#941, Dawn by H. Rider Haggard, also as Seaside-Pocket #959; Munro's Library #726 "It."--The Most Popular Book of the Age)

0502p270 #64-65 =uk 65-66 ; Lovell's 942-62

0516p288 #66-68 =uk 67 68 [69] 70 ; --

p292 London correspondence dated 1887-04-30 notes Patmore "is in its third edition", "the first being taken before publication, the second sold immediately

0601p310 #69-70 =uk * 69 (* De Quincey, Murder as a Fine Art --in Lucian's place?)

0615

0701p4 #73-74 =uk same ; Lovell's 1000-20 (Allan Quatermain #1020)

0715

0801p87 #75-78 =uk same ; Lovell's 1000-33 (Allan Quatermain #1020)

0815p101 #79-80 =uk same ; Lovell's 1034-40

0901p118 #81-83 =uk 81-82 and unknown ; 1046-65 (corrupt; evidently pieced together)

0915p143 #84-86 ; Lovell's 1066-72

1001p218 #87-88 ; --

87 Shakespeare, King Henry VIII; 88 Burke, Essay on the Sublime and the Beautiful

1015

1101

1115

1201p480 #92-98 ; Lovell's 1077-93 and 1100 A Tale of Three Lions, Haggard (also as Munro's #1049)

[10] (#94 Sintram, #97 Vathek) ; Munro's 25c is full of Haggard and Haggard parody

1215

1888 (Jan--Mar, 19); Apr--Jun, 26; Jul--Sep, 17; Oct--Dec, 24

0102p3 #99-101 ; Lovell's 1093-1105 (Three Lions now #94 in Lovell's Household Library)

99 Southey, Colloquies; 100 Plutarch Agesilaus, etc; 101 Shakespeare, A Winter's Tale

0115p20 #102-03

102 The Table Talk of John Lelden; 103 Pepys June-Oct 1667

0201p35 Advertisement #53 to #104 --*#83-104 on-genre except Sintram and Vathek

0215p112 #104-08 ; Lovell's 1102-17

104 Defoe; 105 Dickens; 106 Piozzi Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.; 107 Plutarch Solon, etc; 108 Shelley Prometheus, etc

0301p134 #109-10 ; -- (GAP) (maybe CORRUPT)

109 Dodd, The Republic; 110 Shakespeare, King Lear

0315p163 #111-12 ; Lovell's 1129-43

111 Reynolds, Seven Discourse; 112 Fox, James the Second

0401p178 #113-15 ; --

113 Pepys 1667-68; 114 London in 1731; 115 Jewell Apology

0415

0501

0515p246 #120-123 {GAP 4) ; --

120 Persia II; 121 Pepys 1668; 122 Corioilanus; 123 Milton, Areopagitica

0601

0615p286 #124-26 ; --

124 Carlyle, Essays on Goethe; 125 King Richard II; 126 Plato's Crito and Phaedo

0701

0715

0801p84 #127-131 ; -- [11]

0815p108 #132-34 (Addison, Johnson, Shakespeare) ; --

0901

0915p158 #136 Marmion, Sir Walter Scott (GAP 1) =uk 134

1001

1015p260 #137-43 [12]

1101p293 #144-46 (Southey, Petty, Shakespeare) ; Lovell's 1245-75

1115

1201p449 #147-49 (Carlyle, Plutarch, Defoe) ; Lovell's 1276-1309 (Verne's Moon, #1294, 1300)

1215p468 #150-52 (Shakespeare, Dryden, Plutarch) ; --

1889 (Jan--Mar, 17); Apr--Jun, 8; Jul--Sep, 8; Oct--Dec,

0101p5 #153 (The Amber Witch) ; Lovell's 1310-33, 35-36

0115

0201

0215

0301p99 #150-58 [13] ; Lovell's 1348-61

0315

0401p133 Books and Bookmakers, "Owing to a blunder on the part of the printer, the additions to Cassell's National Library were omitted from the annual list of the Bookseller. They will be found in the present issue." (same for two other libraries)

1890

0201p39 [14] #154-208 (57, inclg two a/b)

India

1886-05-10 #1-13 "sewed, each annas 4"

1887-06-09 #70,71 "6 ans and 0 4"

-07-14 (part missing) Pepys 1664-65 "0-6 and 0-4"

-07-15 Cassell's Library (about 40 listed) "Each As. 2-6"

1888- (two) Pepys 1667-68; J. Jewel, Apology of the Church of England; Fox, History of James II "Ans. 4 and 0 6"

1887

UK [15] The Athenaeum 1887-07-09 p63, list #80 to #1 (genre excluding Shakespeare, probably 71, 11, 10)

3d. and 6d. ; US $0.10 (dime novel, but not limited to fiction much less novels)

US Trips to the Moon listed -06-09 in "Books of the Week" The Independent #71,69; -06-15 in "Additions to the Libraries" American Bookseller #71,72 $0.10

#10 The Castle of Otranto, 191 pp + 16-page promotion at Archive.org

#11 Maundeville, Voyages and Travels

#48 Undine and The Two Captains

#52 A Christmas Carol and The Chimes --likely to be the last under 1886 subscription, perhaps publ before Xmas, altho the series started behind schedule

#71 Trips to the Moon [early May 1887, probably]

Shakespeare (ISFDB titles only): #22 Hamlet, #40 Macbeth, #62 The Tempest, #79 A Midsummer

n.s. 15, Poe, 1904

Otranto Cassell's 1886 o[16], 191pp 15cm Otranto Cassell's 1901 o[17] o[18]-hdl --again 191pp, 15cm