• Publication: Davy and the Goblin; or, What Followed Reading "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"Publication Record # 664048
• Author: Charles E. Carryl
• Date: 1886-00-00
• Publisher: Frederick Warne
• Price:
  5/-^?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).
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: CHAPBOOK
• Notes:

  • 1st UK ed. Published for the 1886 Christmas gift season.
  • Publication year and price from publisher advert The Scotsman 1886-12-20 p3 "Frederick Warne & Co.'s Christmas Catalogue and Detailed List of New Books" is now ready. Among the new books are 9 listed, this one as "In [Denny?] 4to, Cloth, Bevelled Bds., Gilt Edges, 5s.; postage 6d." That -12-20 advertisement quotes an earlier review in The Scotsman (not found 2018-05-04).
  • Bombay retailer Thacker & Co. lists the full title among New Books, Now Ready, at price Rupees-annas 3-12, or 3-6 cash. The list of about 100 books identifies no publishers explicitly --this title is "by Charles E. Carryl. (Illustrated.)"-- but it contains four volumes of "Warne's Little Playmate Series". --The Times of India 1886-11-25 p1
  • One dealer at ABEbooks (as 1885, no images) notes the interior illustrations by Bensell. And describes the book cover, as illustrated with a goblin, but too briefly to know whether it matches the US cover, or to know the artist.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 179287510

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• Davy and the Goblin; or, What Followed Reading "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" • (1885) • novella by Charles E. Carryl
•  Davy and the Goblin; or, What Followed Reading "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" • (1885) • interior artwork by E. B. Bensell