• Publication: Letters from HellPublication Record # 290772
• Author: L. W. J. S.
• Date: 1884-10-00
• Publisher: Richard Bentley & Son
• 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: 348
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • "Given in English by L. W. J. S" appears to be a translation credit. Bleiler calls it a pseudonym in Bleiler78.
  • A footnote in "The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis: Family letters, 1905-1931" attributed the translation to Julie Sutter.
  • There were previous editions in english, a comparison is required to determine the actual order of events.
  • Previous English printings are attributed to "M. Rowel".
  • Publication date and price from advertisements in The Athenaeum 2970/2971 (and other weeklies): • 1884-09-27 p390, "Recent Additions to Bentley's Favourite Novels"; this one "Next Week." • 1884-10-04 p422, "Richard Bentley & Son's List"; this one "[Now ready." Both adverts note "New Edition" and "crown 8vo". The entire listing one week later in The Athenaeum List of New Books is: "Letters from Hell given in English, by L. W. J. S., with a Preface by G. Mac Donald, cr. 8vo. 6/ cl." That is: Preface by George MacDonald, size crown octavo, price 6s., clothbound. Bentley's Favourite Novels appears to be a publication series. The earlier advertisement subheading is "Well printed on good paper and neatly bound, 6s. each." In turn, that may be a successor to Bentley Standard Novels, for which Wikipedia reports price "only six shillings" and a 24-year run from 1831.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 503860104
  • Reginald-1: 12513A

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Preface (Letters from Hell) • essay by George MacDonald
• Letters from Hell • (1884) • novel by Valdemar Thisted (trans. of Breve fra Helvede 1866) [as by L. W. J. S.]