• Publication: A Tale of the House of the Wolfings, and All the Kindreds of the MarkPublication Record # 585631
• Author: William Morris
• Date: 1889-00-00
• Publisher: Reeves & Turner
• 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: 199
• Format:
  tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • 1st ed., trade hardcover (with a large paper format too)
  • Published December 1888, as 1889. This work (no format or price) is covered in "Books of the Week", The Scotsman 1888-12-31 p2: "Very few books--as was natural in the holidays--appeared during the course of last week. ..."
  • Price from advertisement of this "New Work by William Morris", The Athenaeum #3191 1888-12-22 p863: "In square post 8vo, cloth, 6s." "A Limited Number on Special Paper, price on application to the Publishers." (In the publisher's full-page list four weeks earlier, this title is annotated "Nearly ready".)
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with plain cloth cover (original?): -- title page as 1899 displays (all caps, no punctuation but closing dot): A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse by William Morris. -- t.p. verso identifies Chiswick Press -- narrative, p[1]-199 -- 16 leaves (p2-30 numbered): "December 1888: Reeves & Turner's Catalogue of Publications and Remainders"
  • WorldCat record OCLC 3090343 reports a copy that contains 32 pages of publisher's advertisements at back, dated November 1889.
  • Brtish Library record BL 002556587 reports the large paper, limited edition of 100 copies, 89 for sale.
• External IDs:
  • BL: 002556587 014825989
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 3090343
  • Reginald-1: 10423

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• A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark • novel by William Morris