• Publication: The Talking Image of UrurPublication Record # 711016
• Author: Franz Hartmann
• Date: 1892-07-00
• Publisher: Gay & Bird
• 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: xi+307
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • UK edition, printed in New York, undated
  • British Library and three WorldCat records (BL and OCLC, below) provide the same meagre data as "[1892]".
  • Price from listing in "Publications of the Week", The Spectator 1892-08-06 p203.
  • July publication is inferred from that listing and one five weeks earlier in "Books of the Week" (which "came out during last week"), The Scotsman 1892-07-04 p2.
  • "Not Up to Sample", Saturday Review 1892-08-13 p198, is a negative review of the whole work, in contrast to the Lucifer serial (amusing in monthly chapters).
• External IDs:
  • BL: 001608564
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1063085414 751626447 560889331

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• The Talking Image of Urur • (1890) • novel by Franz Hartmann