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Publication: The Research Magnificent

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  • Publication: The Research MagnificentPublication Record # 304326
  • Author: H. G. Wells
  • Date: 1915-09-21
  • 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: 406
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Notes:
    • 1st UK ed., one week after the US ed.
    • Publication date and price, of the first printing evidently, are from identical listings as "[Tuesday" in publisher advertisement "Macmillan's New Books", The Spectator 115.4551 (1915-09-18) p383 and another London weekly, The Saturday Review (p287, curtailed list). Full review in "New Books", Manchester Guardian 1915-09-21 p5, appears under subheading "A Book of Faith: Published To-day", signed "A.M."
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy including original cover: -- front cover gold stamped lettering on dark green with relief design -- copyright page shows only these two lines:   "COPYRIGHT"   "Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Limited, London and Beccles." -- Contents, one unnumbered page -- text spans p3-406; p406 footer repeats printer statement from copyright page -- "New & Recent Works of Fiction" from the publisher, back pages p1-[8]
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