User:Pwendt/Publishers/Cassell
created 2019-03-11 by export of notes from homepage, then section 1 User:Pwendt#February 2019
els William Westall 109749 (34)
- 1886 Phantom City 1886 https://lccn.loc.gov/ca10002808 -LOC ; 1888 https://lccn.loc.gov/ca10002809 -hdl ; 1889 https://lccn.loc.gov/ca10002810
- 1887 Queer Race 1887 https://lccn.loc.gov/ca10002811 -LOC https://lccn.loc.gov/41042514 https://lccn.loc.gov/85891016 ; 1888 https://lccn.loc.gov/ca10002813 https://lccn.loc.gov/ca10002812 ; 1900 https://lccn.loc.gov/00001754 -LOC
- 1888 Fortescue 1888 https://lccn.loc.gov/44043266 https://lccn.loc.gov/ca10002807 ; 1889 https://lccn.loc.gov/ca10002806 -hdl
- 1901? Don or Devil?
Cassell's National Library
- [1] Am Bk 1886-02-15 --one in a series on Cassell & Company, 4 pages
numbers of ProQuest hits for "Cassell's National Library"; eg 33 hits, January to March 1887
- 1885, 5 hits all year, one September and four late)
- 1886, Jan--Mar 52; Apr--Jun 54; Jul--Sep 39; Oct--Dec 34
- 1887, Jan--Mar 33; Apr--Jun 34; Jul--Sep 23; Oct--Dec 25
- 1888, Jan--Mar 19; Apr--Jun 26; Jul--Sep 17; Oct--Dec 24
- 1889, Jan--Mar 17; Apr--Jun 8; Jul--Sep 8; Oct--Dec ??
- 1890
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"
- #10 The Castle of Otranto, 191 pp + 16-page promotion at Archive.org
Otranto Cassell's 1886 o[2], 191pp 15cm Otranto Cassell's 1901 o[3] o[4]-hdl --again 191pp, 15cm
- #11 Maundeville, Voyages and Travels
- #48 Undine and The Two Captains
- #52 A Christmas Carol and The Chimes --(US #51) #52 and 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 ; The Winter's Tale [Florizel and Perdita]
- n.s. 15, Poe, 1904
1887
- UK [5] 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
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- 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
- 1886-01-02, The Athenaeum, Our Library Table --#1 in hand
- 01-23 The Spectator [6] "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 [7] (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 [8] 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) [9]
- 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
- [10] 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 [11]
- p206 news item on same [12]
- 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)
American Bookseller
- see also Publisher:John W. Lovell
double-indentation identifies notes from content other than "Additions"
numbers of "Additions to the Libraries" found by Proquest title search (about 40% of all hits for that title
- 1886, 22 --not Jul 15, Nov 15 (21 of 22 also hit ^Beadle's^)
- 1887, 19 --not Jan 15, Jul 15, [Oct 15?] Nov 1, Nov 15
- 1888
- 1889
CHECK ALL EARLY 1886 "Additions" 2019-03-11
- 1886 includes Lovell's Library #700-27, 33-42, 52-92, 823-37 (93 of 137 numbers)
- 0101p4 -- ; LL--
- 0115p21 -- ; LL--
- 0201p43 -- ; LL--
- 0215p80 -- ; LL--
- 0301p101 -- ; Lovell's 711-17
- 0315p136 -- ; Lovell's 700-710 (Seaside--Pocket is nine from #723-40; Wide Awake is #712)
- 0401p268 "National" #1-9 =uk 2-10 as 2 6* 4 5 7* 3* 8 9 10; LL--
- 0415p204 "National" #10-11 =uk 11-12 ; Lovell's 718-27
- 0501p228 "National" #12-13 (Trenck,
Bacon[revised]) ; LL-- - 0515p252 "National" #13-16 (Trenck II, Scott, Luther, Bacon) =uk (nil) 13-15 ; Lovell's 733-42
- 0601p278 "National" #17 =uk 16 ; LL--
- 0615p301 -- ; Lovell's 743-51
BEFORE THIS TIME THERE ARE SOME "Additions" to the "National Library" (not as "Cassell's")
- 0701p4 #18-23 =uk 17-22 ; LL--
- 0715--- "Additions" not found at PROQUEST
- 0801p94 #24-27 ; LL--
- 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 ; LL--
- 1015p256 #36-37 =uk 37 38 ; LL-- [Harper's Handy Series #96-97, 97 The Phantom City]
- p268 London Correspondence dated 1886-10-01 notes Cassell "announcementes" uk #37-40 unnumbered
- 1101p314 #38-41 =uk 39 40 [41] 43 42 ; LL--
- 1115--- "Additions" not found at PROQUEST
- 1201p531 #42-44 =uk 41 44 45 ; LL--
- 1215p558 #45-46 =uk 46 47 ; Lovell's 823-37 ==GAP missing Lovell's #793-822 (30)==
1887
- 1887 listings include Lovell's Library #838-962, 972-94, 1000-72, 77-93, 1100
- 0101p5 #47-49 =uk 48-50 ; Lovell's 838-50
- 0115p28 #50-51 =uk 51-52 ; LL--
- 0201p52 #52 =uk 53 ; Lovell's 851-76
- p47 Advertisement lists #1-52 [13] --concludes with UK #52-53
- 0215p124 #53-55 =uk 54-56 ; Lovell's 877-95
- 0301p148 #56-57 =uk 57-58 ; LL--
- 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 ; LL--
- 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?); LL--
- 0615p326 #71-72 =uk 71-72 ; Lovell's 971-94 (here-listed 71 Trips to the Moon)
- 0701p4 #73-74 =uk same ; Lovell's 1000-20 (Allan Quatermain #1020)
- 0715--- "Additions" not found at PROQUEST
- 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 ; LL--
- 87 Shakespeare, King Henry VIII; 88 Burke, Essay on the Sublime and the Beautiful
- 1015p246 #89-91 ; LL--
- 1101--- "Additions" not found at PROQUEST
- 1115--- "Additions" not found at PROQUEST
- 1201p480 #92-98 ; Lovell's 1077-93 and 1100 A Tale of Three Lions, Haggard (also as Munro's #1049)
- [14] (#94 Sintram, #97 Vathek) ; Munro's 25c is full of Haggard and Haggard parody
- 1215p498 -- ; LL--
1888
- 1887 listings include Lovell's Library #1093-1117, 29-51, 1153--1309
- 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
- 0201
- 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 ; LL-- (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 ; LL--
- 113 Pepys 1667-68; 114 London in 1731; 115 Jewell Apology
- 0415p199 #116-19 ; Lovell's 1144-51 (Munro's 824 A Queer Race)
- 0501p230 -- ; Lovell's 1153-74
- 0515p246 #120-123 {GAP 4) ; LL--
- 120 Persia II; 121 Pepys 1668; 122 Coriolanus; 123 Milton, Areopagitica
- 0601p264 -- (Cassell's Sunshine Series #1-4) ; Lovell's 1175-80 (Munro's published by John W. Lovell Company)
- 0615p286 #124-26 ; LL--
- 124 Carlyle, Essays on Goethe; 125 King Richard II; 126 Plato's Crito and Phaedo
- 0701p4 -- (Rainbow 25, Sunshine 7) ; Lovell's 1181-88
- 0715--- "Additions" not found at PROQUEST
- 0801p84 #127-131 ; LL-- [15]
- 0815p108 #132-34 (Addison, Johnson, Shakespeare) ; LL--
- 0901p124 #135 ; Lovell's 1189-1208
- 0915p158 #136 Marmion, Sir Walter Scott (GAP 1) =uk 134
- 1001p236 -- (Sunshine 16) ; Lovell's 1208-44
- 1015p260 #137-43 [16] ; LL--
- 1101p293 #144-46 (Southey, Petty, Shakespeare) (Rainbow 29, Sunshine 16) ; Lovell's 1245-75
- 1115--- "Additions" not found at PROQUEST
- 1201p449 #147-49 (Carlyle, Plutarch, Defoe) ; Lovell's 1276-1309 (Verne's Moon, #1294, 1300)
- 1215p468 #150-52 (Shakespeare, Dryden, Plutarch) ; LL--
1889
- 0101p5 #153 (The Amber Witch) ; Lovell's 1310-33, 35-36
- 0115 CONTENTS listing: "Additions to the Libraries, 1888 ... [p]53"
- 0201 ? no hit, neven Contents
- 0215 ? no hit, neven Contents
- 0301p99 #150-58 [17] ; Lovell's 1348-61
- 0315 ? no hit, neven Contents
- 0401p125 #102--153 [18] (Rainbow 26-29; Sunshine 20-21) ; Lovell's 1348-69
- p133 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)
- 0415p144 -- (Rainbow 30, Sunshine 23) ; Lovell's 1370-76
- 0501p173 -- (Sunshine 24-26) ; Lovell's 1377-86
- 0515p193 -- ; --
- 0601p208 (Sunshine 27-29) ; Lovell's 1387-1403
- 0615p230 -- ; --
- 0701p250 (Sunshine 30) ; Lovell's 1404-10
- 0715
- 0801p329 (Sunshine 31-33) ;
- 0815p348 -- ; --
- 0902p364 -- ; --
- 0916p402 (Sunshine 34) ; --
- 1001 ?
- 1015p492 -- ; --
- 1101p515 (Sunshine 36) ; --
- 1115
- 1201p666 (Sunshine 37-39) ; Lovell's 1411-27
- 1216p684 -- ; --
- p698 "SPECIAL // To Publishers, ... // We beg to announce to the trade generally, that The American Bookseller for FEBRUARY 1st will contain a complete list of all books published in the United States during the year 1889, including imported editions, reprints, and ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARIES. The Catalogue is not a mere index or summary of advertisements contained in the issue, but a full Catalogue of the Publications of the year. It has been most carefully prepared, and is arranged alphabetically by "Authors", with titles, prices, publishers'names, and cross references in the case of important books.
- [continued]" [19]
1890
- 0101p5 -- ; --
- 0115p20 -- ; --
- 0201p44 -- ; --
- p39 [20] #154-208 (57, inclg two a/b)
- 0215p120 (Sunshine 40-41) ;
- 0301p136 -- ; --
- 0315p153 -- ; --
- 0401p184 (Sunshine 43) ; (four Series in Lovell section, inclg L's Leather Clad Tales #1-7)
- 0415 ?
- 0501p232 -- ; (ten Series in Lovell section of the list)
- 0515 ?
- 0601 ?
- 0615 ?
- 0701p4 (Sunshine 50-51) ;
- 0715
- 0801p101 (six Lovell's)
- 0815p116 (Sunshine 52) ; (Lovell's Westminstere Series #1-10)
- 0901p136 -- ; --
- 0915p170 -- ; --
- 1001p228 (Sunshine 56) ; --
- 1015p245 -- ; --
- 1101p278 -- ; --
- 1115
- 1201p434 -- ; --
- 1215p453 (Sunshine 57) ; --
1991 (now fortnightly)
- 0103p6 -- ; -- [Harper's Franklin Square Library 688-89] [New York Detective Liibrary #421-22]
- 0117p21 -- ; --
- 0131p43
- 0214p124 (Sunshine 59) ; --
- 0228p141 (Sunshine 58, 60) ; --
- 0314
- 0328