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  • Publication: Phantasmagoria and Other PoemsPublication Record # 440780
  • Author: Lewis Carroll
  • Date: 1869-01-00
  • 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: viii+202
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: COLLECTION
  • Notes:
    • First edition, first issue (See LCCN and The Athenaeum, far below.) This may be the only edition of the 1869 collection. See the Collection Title.
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover. The first and longest poem "Phantasmagoria" is one of those published for the first time, per uncredited note, p[v]. That preliminary note also explains the front cover decoration.
    • Price from listing in The Athenaeum 1869-01-09 #2150 p55 "List of New Books", this one "12mo. 6/ cl." Publication date from that and publisher advertisement -01-02 #2149; this one "(Immediately.)", no price.
    • One December advertisement indicates another 1869 edition/issue, The Athenaeum 1869-12-18 #2199 p805 "Macmillan & Co.'s Christmas Books", this one now "Fcap. 8vo. 6s."
  • External IDs:
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Collection Title: Phantasmagoria and Other Poems • (1869) • collection by Lewis Carroll

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