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Publication: To the Land of Fair Delight: Three Victorian Tales of the Imagination

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  • Publication: To the Land of Fair Delight: Three Victorian Tales of the ImaginationPublication Record # 369538
  • Authors: G. E. Farrow, Jean Ingelow, George MacDonald
  • Date: 1960-00-00
  • Publisher: Gollancz
  • Price:
    15/-?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: 583
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: OMNIBUS
  • Cover: To the Land of Fair Delight: Three Victorian Tales of the Imagination by Arthur Hughes and Alan Wright
  • Notes: 1st ed. OCLC 561783295 (under long title/heading; as author Streatfeild) -- "Illustrated by the original artists." OCLC 314956050 (as authors 3 novelists) -- no illus. credit OCLC 163782935 (short title/heading) -- "Introduced by Noel Streitfeild" (no editor credit) -- "Illustr., by the original artists", respectively: •   orig. illustr. by Jessie Macgregor and Alfred W. Hunt •   30 illustr. by Alan Wright •   19 illustr. by Arthur Hughes Only the third WorldCat library record, evidently by a German library, credits the illustrators. In 1899 Alan Wright was so credited on the front cover, correctly, but credited as "Allan Wright" on the title page. ASIN B000VK00LS at Amazon UK as of 2017-01-26 (in error as Franklin Watts, US publisher) Front cover image from Amazon via same page -- shows Gollancz (spine) and 15/- (thus UK not US edition) -- shows illustrations (2) of the Dodo and the Back of the North Wind (plainly from comparison with originals) -- states "Illustrated with the original illustrations" over "576 PAGES — 15/-" Advertisement (earliest found) among "Gollancz Books for the summer holidays" The Guardian 1966-07-08 p14, as "576 pp, 15/-"
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