• Publication: A World Beneath the Waters, or Merman's CountryPublication Record # 677923
• Author: The Rev. Gerard W. Bancks, M.A.
• Date: 1895-04-00
• Publisher: Cassell & Company
• Price:
  3/6^?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: 159
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Cover: A World Beneath the Waters, or Merman's Country by Crow
• Notes:

  • Publication date from "Notes and News" The Academy 1194 (1895-03-23) p255, "will publish early next month", supported by the author's manuscript note.
  • Price from review in "Books of the Week" Manchester Guardian 1895-05-07 p9 (negative; see the novel record).
  • HDL e-copy reported below contains the author's manuscript note on personal stationery, which probably begins "Ap 30 1895"; "Dear Mr. Jackson". Jackson had seen a previous version evidently. Bancks mentions publication "a few weeks ago".
  • HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) provides full view of one copy with the original cover (front cover red cloth with gold stamped illustration, no lettering; spine not displayed). -- title page credits 44 original illustrations by "Crow" -- no Illustrations list -- text spans p1-159; p159 footer "Printed by Cassell & Company, Limited, La Belle Sauvage, London, E.C." -- back pages 1-4, "Selections from Cassell & Company's Volumes" (all priced, none dated) • Some 12(?) of the illustrations are full-page captioned and signed drawings, reproduced as frontispiece and plates included in the pagination. Among those printed with the text (30?), some take more than half a page. • Cover illustration (gold stamped on red cloth) is that of page 110.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 79710365

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• A World Beneath the Waters, or Merman's Country • juvenile • novel by The Rev. Gerard W. Bancks, M.A.
•  A World Beneath the Waters, or Merman's Country • interior artwork by Crow