• Publication: The Pacha of Many TalesPublication Record # 699630
• Author: The Author of 'Peter Simple,' 'Jacob Faithful,' &c.
• Date: 1849-00-00
• Publisher: Richard Bentley
• Pub. Series: Bentley Standard Novels
• Pub. Series #: 68
• 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: 378
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes:

  • Known speculative fiction contents alone are listed below.
  • New edition The Standard Novels and Romances is now issued in a cheaper, Three Shillings and Sixpence edition. One front leaf and one back leaf constitute a four-page numbered list #1-20, 21-54, 55-90, 91-121, "To Be Followed by Other Popular Works." (viewed at HathiTrust)
  • Series number and price are from that list.
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy without original cover: -- title page credit (quote 3 lines, small caps):   By the Author of   " Peter Simple," " Jacob Faithful,"   &c. -- t.p. second publisher: "Bell & Bradfute, Edinburgh" -- text spans p[1]-378; p378 footer "London: Spottiswoodes and Shaw, New-street-Square." This edition reproduces from the 1835 Saunders and Otley 3-volume edition (see) -- division in 22 chapters numbered I-VII, I-VIII, I-VII; -- mid-page headings (all caps, centred) for all contained stories except the Second Voyage of Huckaback. The Saunders and Otley division in 3 volumes is represented by four interior page footers and headers (small caps): "End of the first volume." "Volume the second." (137, 139) "End of the second volume." "Volume the third." (258, 259).
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 889647209 877129016

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 13 • Story of the Greek Slave • (1835) • short story by Frederick Marryat (variant of The Story of the Greek Slave 1834) [as by The Author of 'Peter Simple,' 'Jacob Faithful,' &c.]
• 92 • Huckaback • [Huckaback • 1] • (1835) • novelette by Frederick Marryat [as by The Author of 'Peter Simple,' 'Jacob Faithful,' &c.]
• 149 • Third Voyage of Huckaback • [Huckaback • 3] • (1835) • short story by Frederick Marryat [as by The Author of 'Peter Simple,' 'Jacob Faithful,' &c.]
• 166 • Fourth Voyage of Huckaback • [Huckaback • 4] • (1835) • short story by Frederick Marryat [as by The Author of 'Peter Simple,' 'Jacob Faithful,' &c.]
• 178 • Fifth Voyage of Huckaback • [Huckaback • 5] • (1835) • short story by Frederick Marryat [as by The Author of 'Peter Simple,' 'Jacob Faithful,' &c.]
• 198 • Sixth Voyage of Huckaback • [Huckaback • 6] • (1835) • short story by Frederick Marryat [as by The Author of 'Peter Simple,' 'Jacob Faithful,' &c.]
• 214 • The Last Voyage of Huckaback • [Huckaback • 7] • (1835) • short story by Frederick Marryat [as by The Author of 'Peter Simple,' 'Jacob Faithful,' &c.]
• 230 • The Scarred Lover • (1835) • novelette by Frederick Marryat [as by The Author of 'Peter Simple,' 'Jacob Faithful,' &c.]