- Publication: Michael Strogoff, the Courier of the Czar / The Mutineers: A Romance of MexicoPublication Record # 711359
- Author: Jules Verne
- Date: 1876-12-00
- Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
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Price: 10/6?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).
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Format: octavo?5.5" by 8.5" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued
- Type: OMNIBUS
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Notes: www.julesverne.ca claims there is a publisher's catalogue of 24 pages dated October 1876 which may cause some confusion regarding dates. The 95 illustrations noted by JVE suggest they were the original illustrations by Férat (91 and 6 in the original). Sources:
- Title (Michel Strogoff), date (December 1876), publisher (Sampson Low), format (crown 8vo), price (10s6d), illustrations (95), translator and translation from Jules Verne Encyclopedia.
- Title (Michael Strogoff, the Courier of the Czar; and The Mutineers: A Romance of Mexico), date (1876), publisher (Sampson Low), translator and translation from jv.gilead.org.il.
- Title (Michael Strogoff, The Courier of the Czar), date (1877), publisher (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington) and a cover image (not copied) from www.julesverne.ca.
Omnibus Title:
Michael Strogoff, the Courier of the Czar / The Mutineers: A Romance of Mexico • omnibus by Jules Verne
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- Michael Strogoff, the Courier of the Czar • [Voyages extraordinaires • 14] • novel by Jules Verne (trans. of Michel Strogoff)
- The Mutineers: A Romance of Mexico • novelette by Jules Verne (trans. of Un drame au Mexique)
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