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[1] Am Bk 1886-02-15 p83-86? --one in a series on Cassell & Company

four-part heading: Contributions to Trade History. No. XXIII. Cassell & Cmopany, Limited. (Continued from last number.)

Cassell & Company publication series 

Cassell's National Library
Cassell's Pocket Library
Cassell's Red Library
New Boys' Library

"Cassell's" magazines 

Family Mag
Saturday Jour
Sunshine Series --1, 1892 (semi-monthly)

Cassell's Saturday Journal [2] --dnf HathiTrust

serial, The Man with a Shadow, begins 1887
Cassell's Sunshine Series --as magazine [3]

Am Bk "Additions" (far below) lists some numbers

1892-07- #122 --q
Cassell's Rainbow Series --as publ series

Am Bk "Additions" (far below) lists some numbers

The Critic 1887-11-19 p256 "Recent Fiction": "The Haggard rider of the sensational hobby-horse is now well-known to fame, and the many frank imitators of the great original are flooding the market with such tales as 'A Queer Race' by William Westall and 'Dead Man's Rock' by Q, both issued in Cassell's Rainbow Series."
The Frozen Pirate, W. Clark Russell (Franklin Square Library) "discovered after a frozen sleep of fifty years, from which he is thawed out, with more or less entertainment to the reader."
AmBk 1887-10-15 p243 'Dead Man's Rock' by Q; Rainbow, 12o, pp. 364, pap., 25 cents

WorldCat se:"cassell's rainbow" (30)

1886=3 5 18 2 1 0 1=1892(#110!)
[(c)]1888 - 19 No. XIII; 18 The Phantom City 1888-05-15 o[711434987]
1890 - King Solomon's o[223205397]
A Queer Race, "Yellowback novel" 2nd, 1888 o[57401173] ; 3rd 1889 o[55856305]
A Queer Race, LOC, p[321-24] US back pages ; LC 10-2811 per Open Library
--contrast reported 16 back pages in some WorldCat records also viii+303

(quote) [RLS]'s New Serial Novel, entitled The Master of Ballantrae, begun in this issue, is the first serial story every written by its author for an American magazine. It is a tale of adventure and romance; the action opens in Scotland and moves from there to the United States, thence to Scotland again, to India, back to Scotland, and finally to the United States, the last of the hero's adventures happening here in America. The novel is illustrated by Mr. William Hole, who was selected by the author to do the work. --"Ready at 11 O'clock. Scribner's Magazine. A Remarkable Number for November.", NY Times 1888-10-25 p5

available in the UK

Ath 3187 1888-11-24 p684 "Ready November 26, price One Shilling. The Christmas Number of Scribner's Magazine." ... The Master of Ballantrae. II.
one month earlier re the November issue, publisher advertisement not found


els  George Manville Fenn 82705
The Man with a Shadow --review NEEDs "[Fenn] fills nearly three volumes with brawls, crimes, and scientific experiments."
BLOd.i 1888 Ward & D "G. Manville Fenn" ✓
1900 Chatto & Windus "Geo. Manville Fenn" --q
2010 Gutenberg #34248 "George Manville Fenn" ✓


els  William Westall 109749 (34)

six titles listed at SFE3

1877 [1876] Tales and Legends of Saxony and Lusatia, BL 003895338
1882 Tales and Traditions of Switzerland, BL 003895339
BOm.5/- 1886 The Phantom City
LOd$ 1886 Harper's https://lccn.loc.gov/ca10002808 -LOC = Harper's Handy Series
[1888] NY:Cassell https://lccn.loc.gov/ca10002809 -hdl
[1889] Munro https://lccn.loc.gov/ca10002810
BLO. 1887 A Queer Race ( 1887 https://lccn.loc.gov/ca10002811 -LOC Cassell's Rainbow Series ) ; 1888 https://lccn.loc.gov/ca10002813 https://lccn.loc.gov/ca10002812 ; 1900 https://lccn.loc.gov/00001754 -LOC Columbia library, v. 2, no. 25
BLO. 1888-09 Nigel Fortescue 1888 https://lccn.loc.gov/ca10002807 ; 1889 https://lccn.loc.gov/ca10002806 -hdl
1888-10-06 Mr. Fortescue
--NEED revisit Project Gutenberg, and canonical title choice

The Athenaeum 3173 1888-08-18 p227; one item in Literary Gossip notes that "Westall's new adventure story will be ready early in September" from Ward & Downey.

The Academy 850, (Aug 18, 1888) p102, "Notes and News" notes "one-volume form, similar to the same author's "Phantom City," &c. It will be issued simultaneously in New York by Messrs. Appleton, and also in Canada."

1887
Phantom City "now in a third edition"; Westall has written another to be a serial in Young Folks' Paper. Later from "Cassell & Co. in the same form as Kidnapped, King Solomon's Mines, &c." --Notes and News, Acad 786 1887-05-28 p377 ;; same-day Ath #3109 p705 states "in the same series as 'A Treasure Island' and 'Kidnapped.'"

"Some of Cassell & Company's New Volumes", Ath 3124 1887-09-10 p356, A Queer Race 5s.; and in The Spectator as "[Ready shortly."

in publisher Announcements as "[Just ready." "320 pages, crown 8vo. cloth, 5s. --where Kidnapped witih 16 original illus.; King Solomon's Mines "New Edition"


August 1886
us [4] AmBk -08-01 p89 advertisement Cassell's (National Library 4, Select Library 4, Rainbow Series 4; and The Phantom City "12mo, cloth extra $1.50.")
us [5] The Critic -08-05 p12, Books of the Week, with size in inches, this one 7-1/4 x 4-3/4(?)
[6] Spectator -08-07 --length review of "Two of Mr. Westall's Novel."
1901? Don or Devil? BL 003895312

Westall at HathiTrust (33)

Saxony 1 ; Switzerland 5 ; Phantom 13 (London: Cassell, 1886); Nigel 16 Mr Fortescue 17 18 26 ; [The Queer Race, dnf]

-- viii+288 +8pp advertisements; inclg Rainbow series, 1s. (3) ; Westall, Popular Editions, 2s. each (3) ; Phantom 5s. ; Gulliver's, illus., Cheap Edition, 5s. ; Dore's Munchausen 5s. (and other Dore')

The Phantom City, Hardy's Handy #97, 1886-10-08

the 41st Friday of 1886 and 93rd from begin 1885; if truly weekly then Friday 1886-12-31 will be #109

Westall ProQuest hits by year, 1885 to 1890

"Phantom City" Westall - 128 (0 38-47 26 14 2)
"Queer Race" Westall - 72 (0 0 34-24 11 2)
Fortescue Westall - 65 ([4 5] 4 43-9 0) --[all spurious]
earliest genuine The Critic 1888-06-23 p310 "among the works of fiction [Appl] will publish soon"
Am Bk 1888-07-01 p12 D. Appleton & Co. have begun the publication of a semimonthly paper series, consisting mainly of fiction, under the attractive name of "Appleton's Town and Country Library"; initial volumes 4 ; fortescue soon
-09-29 one at 50 cents and Fortescue as Stories of Romantic Adventure #1, paper, 40c --confirmed in advert NY Trib -10-06 p8 "publish this day"
5/-

Fortescue nearly simultaneous "Notes and News", The Academy 850 (1888-08-18 p102): "will be published in September ... It will be issued simultaneously in New York by Messrs. Appleton and also in Canada." Two notices found 6-8 weeks earlier in US magazines, as to be published soon.

Appleton's Fortescue back cover; see also front inside cover Town and Country Library

Westall in Chatto & Windus's Piccadilly Novels (1900-06-23) --15, among more than 300 


.el  Tasma 187069 (17)
Uncle Piper 1889 https://lccn.loc.gov/06028869 -hdl https://lccn.loc.gov/ca07003498 https://lccn.loc.gov/ca07003497 https://lccn.loc.gov/44015364 -2nd ; 1969 https://lccn.loc.gov/70397098
2002 The Pipers ...: The Serial Version o[222782637]
HDL 1889 [7], 1891 [8], 1892 [9]

The White Feather

[1891] Lovell, Coryell & Company https://lccn.loc.gov/ca07003496 --indicates another Lovell successor?
Lovell's International #217 o[25319356] o[83652135] 347

White Feather at WorldCat

Knight of the ... o[775977974]
HDL Leipzig 1893 https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011250294

A Sydney Sovereign (5-story and 9-story collections)

1889? o[25476060] 1890 o[894251805]
expanded 1993 o[29497552](9) o[0207181217] o[819690630]
HDL 1889? [10], 1890 [11]


Cassell's National Library

CASSELL'S NATIONAL LIBRARY

UK and US series

first 52 issues (ostensibly 1886)

2 6* 4 5 7* 3* 8 9 10 11 = off by one except *
12^ 26* 27* 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 = major variant listing; @not on UK list
20 21 22 23 24 25 : 28 29 30 31
32 35* 33* 34* 36 37 38 39 40 43*
42* 41* 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51^ 52 53

Thus 28 of the first 52 US issues match the UK issues #2-53 (with some title variants maybe), simply 1 number in advance (US2=UK1) UK 2 4-5 8-12 [#13-25 vice versa] 28-32 36-40 44-53

issues 54-82 UK (ostensibly half of 1887)

(1886) 54 to 68, as US 53 to 67 ; 57^ Plutarch selection is uncertain identity
us68: 70* @ 69*
71* to 82*, matching sequence, achieved by insertion at US#69
(The primary list of UK issues #82...1 ends here.)

Thus simply 1 number in advance, also UK 54-68; or 43 of the first 67 US issues

"Annual" lists of the previous year's US issues (linked below amid detail report from American Bookseller)

  1. #1-52 (52) --February 1887, as list of the first year's issues
  2. #53-104 (52)
  3. #150-158 (59)
  4. #154-208 (57 listings including two 'a' and 'b')


numbers of ProQuest hits ("Cassell's National Library") --eg 33 hits, January to March 1887

  • 1885, 5 hits all year, one September and four late)
  • 1886, Jan--Mar 52; Apr--Jun 54; Jul--Sep 39; Oct--Dec 34
  • 1887, Jan--Mar 33; Apr--Jun 34; Jul--Sep 23; Oct--Dec 25
  • 1888, Jan--Mar 19; Apr--Jun 26; Jul--Sep 17; Oct--Dec 24
  • 1889, Jan--Mar 17; Apr--Jun 8; Jul--Sep 8; Oct--Dec ??
  • 1890

India

1886-05-10 #1-13 "sewed, each annas 4"
1887-06-09 #70,71 "6 ans and 0 4"
-07-14 (part missing) Pepys 1664-65 "0-6 and 0-4"
-07-15 Cassell's Library (about 40 listed) "Each As. 2-6"
1888- (two) Pepys 1667-68; J. Jewel, Apology of the Church of England; Fox, History of James II "Ans. 4 and 0 6"
#10 The Castle of Otranto, 191 pp + 16-page promotion at Archive.org

Otranto Cassell's 1886 o[12], 191pp 15cm Otranto Cassell's 1901 o[13] o[14]-hdl --again 191pp, 15cm

#11 Maundeville, Voyages and Travels
#48 Undine and The Two Captains
#52 A Christmas Carol and The Chimes --(US #51) #52 and last under 1886 subscription, perhaps publ before Xmas, altho the series started behind schedule
#71 Trips to the Moon [early May 1887, probably]

Shakespeare (ISFDB titles only): #22 Hamlet, #40 Macbeth, #62 The Tempest, #79 A Midsummer ; The Winter's Tale [Florizel and Perdita]

n.s. 15, Poe, 1904


1887

UK [15] The Athenaeum 1887-07-09 p63, list #80 to #1 (genre excluding Shakespeare, probably 71, 11, 10)
3d. and 6d. ; US $0.10 (dime novel, but not limited to fiction much less novels)
US Trips to the Moon listed -06-09 in "Books of the Week" The Independent #71,69; -06-15 in "Additions to the Libraries" American Bookseller #71,72 $0.10

Bold text

1887-07-09 parenthetical due dates #80 1887-07-18, #79 1887-07-11 (Mondays)
weekly implies #1 second week of January 1886
weekly implies July 4=#78; 27 20 13 6, May 30, 23, [16=#71, 9, 2 =#69; April 25, 18, 11, 4, March 28 21 14 7=#61; Feb 28 21 14 7, Jan 31 24 17 10 3; Dec 27=#51 20 13 6, Nov 29 22 15 8 1=#43; Oct 25 18 11=#40 4, Sep 27 20 13 6; Aug 30 23 16 9 2=#30, Jul 26 19 12 5, Jun 28 21 14 7, May 31 24=#20 17 10 3, Apr 26 19 12 5, Mar 29 22 15=#10 8 1, Feb 22 15 8 1, Jan 25 18 11 4=#0

1885 (5 hits)

The Academy, Notes and News 1885-09-12 #697 "arranged to publish immediately" "They will contain 192 pages, small octavo, in coloured wrapper, and will be issued weekly at threepence each."
same -12-05 #709 p75 "On December 21 will be published the first ..."
same -12-12 #711 p.ix, advertises the first weekly volume, ready Dec 21
2019-03-09, pursue all publications in The Athenaeum, some others (UK); American Bookseller, N-Y Trib, The Sun

1886

  • 1886-01-02, The Athenaeum, Our Library Table --#1 in hand
  • 01-23 The Spectator [16] "now publishing, in weekly volumes, price 3d each."; "also published in cloth, 6d each."
no dates, "First list of volumes now publishing" (8 later known as #1-8)
  • -01-30 The Spectator p162 #8 named
  • -02-20 The Spectator p272 lists #8--1 and ready Feb 24th #9, Mar 3rd #10 [17] (8th and 9th Wednesdays of the year)
  • -03-06 The Athenaeum p344 lists #10--1 (10th Saturday)
  • -03-20 The Spectator p404 lists #12--1
  • -04-10 The Athenaeum p499 lists #16--1 (15th Saturday)
King Solomon's Mines 16th thousand, 5/- ; 1887-07-09 48th thousand, 5-/
  • -05-08 The Athenaeum p632 lists #20--1 (on 19th Saturday)
  • -06-05 The Athenaeum p764 lists #24--1

NO LISTING YET NUMBERS the volumes --AND adverts in The Athenaeum now cease?

  • -12-25 The Athenaeum p861 recent editions include #46 47 49 51 (unnumbered)
note #52 A Christmas Carol; #53 The Christian Year, John Keble

1887 NOW NUMBERED

  • -01-08 [18] The Athenaeum p80 "Now Ready, The First Year's Issue of Cassell's National Library." --list #1 to #52; 31/6 for the set, cloth, "in a handsome Oak Bookcase" ; "Vols of the Second Year's Issue now ready" #53-55
  • -03-05 The Athenaeum p336 Cassell's Announcements include "Recent Volumes": #63--53
King Solomon's 40th thousand
  • -03-19 The Athenaeum p385 Literary Gossip: #71 due -04-25, the first two books of Angel in the House "the first work of a living author"
  • -03-26 The Academy p219 #70 due Apr 25th, Patmore by permission of the author ... the first work by a living author that has appeared in the "National Library."
  • -04-09 The Athenaeum p" " "Vol. 70 ... (ready April 25 ..." "recently appeared" #68/69--59
  • -05-07 The Athenaeum p624 Cassell's Announcements "Vol. 70 ... (now ready,
King Solomon's 43rd thousand
  • -06-18 The Athenaeum p801 Literary Gossip. "Another copyright work" to appear: poem My Beautiful Lady, to be revised, as #82 due -07-18
Anstey contributes to The Graphic, Christmas number
  • -07-09 #82--1
  • -08-06 The Athenaeum p196 "List of Recent Volumes" #79--85, the last "[Ready August 8."
  • -09-03 The Athenaeum p312 The Coming Publishing Season: Cassell's National Library: Plutarch, Keats, Lobo, and 'Sintram and His Cmopanions, and Aslauga's Knight' by De la Motte Fouque'
AmBk notes the same four in English Announcements -10-15 p259

1888

  • -04-14 The Athenaeum p479 Announcements --same as the next, but subtle
  • -04-28 The Athenaeum p549, Notice: #122 The Victories of Love, part 2 of The Angel in the House (#70, quickly 4 large editions) ... 122 volumes now ready
same in The Spectator -04-21 p556
  • -07-14 The Athenaeum p75 Announcements lists Cassell's Red Library monthly #1--44; National Library weekly #105-34 (30) [19]
King Solomon's, with full-page by Walter Paget, 63rd thousand
  • -12-17 Manchester Guardian, now another Plutarch and Shakespeare's Cymbeline

1889

  • -01-19 The Spectator p104, Recent Volumes #157-161 "N.B. Volumes 1 to 156 of [CNL] form the first Three Years' Issues."
  • -02-09 The Athenaeum p191, List of the Fourth Year's Volumes already published: #157-64 (8)
  • -03-09 The Athenaeum p328, #162-68
  • -03-16 The Spectator p384, #162-69
  • -04-13 The Athenaeum p483 #174--159; due April 29, copyright work #175 Aubrey de Vere The Legends of St. Patrick
  • -05-11 The Athenaeum p616 Announcements
King Solomon's 63rd thousand
  • -08-31 The Academy p134, another copyright work due as #193 Monday next, F. T. Palgrave's Visions of England
  • -12-01 p8 -The Observer 200 volumes now ready


US

  • -03-27 N-Y Trib $0.10, cloth $0.25; new volumes #8 Plutarch's, #9 Otranto (differs from the later British numbering)
those two in New Novels, The Sun -04-06 p1
  • -05-15 N-Y Trib new vols unnumbered (later #12--16)
  • -11-05 The Sun, now Macbeth and Australian Travels
  • -11-18 The Sun, #41 Pope early poems
  • -11-20 The Sun, #42 Samuel Pepys
  • -11-30 The Sun, now Bravo of Venice

1887

  • -03-11 The Sun, #55 by James Sheridan Knowles
  • -03-30 The Sun, now Macaulay's Lays and Sermons
  • -04-19 The Sun, now Rosalind and Isaac Becherstaf
-04-21 Advance (Chicago), five of the latest, uk#59, 61-64
  • -04-28 The Sun, #64 Gebir and Count Julian
  • -05-11 The Sun, #60 Samuel Pepys, part 2
  • -05-19 The Sun, now Discovery of Guiana by Raleigh (fatal to him)
same is "the latest" per Advance, same day
  • -06-01 The Sun, now The Angel in the House, revised; and De Quincey's essays "Murder as One of the Fine Arts" and "The English Mail Coach"
-06-09 Advance, Books Received: Paper Covers (5), inclg Crotchet Castle by Peacock, Murder by De Quincey --both US only?
  • -07-30 The Sun, now Pope and Young (#75-76)
-09-08 Advance (five, inclg #78-79 81-82)
-09-22 Advance (two)
-10-06 Advance (one) received King Henry VIII
  • -10-18 The Sun, now King Henry VIII
  • -10-28 The Sun, now MacAulay's "Warren Hastings" =uk #1
  • -11-18 The Sun, now Human Nature by Bishop Butler
-11-24 Advance (one) received Sintram

1888

-04-05 Advance (two) received Fox and another Pepys
-04-26 Advance (one) received Much Ado
  • -05-26 The Sun, now Jewell [#115] and J.F.C. Hecker, The Black Death


AmBk (American Bookseller)

Literary Notes -01-15 "[CC] are about to bring out in this country the series of reprints ... ... everything, indeed, that is especially worth preservation--and is not now copyrighted." subscription $5.00
[20] American Bookseller 1886-02-01 --now ready #2, in press #3-7, "other volumes in preparation"; annual 52 @ $5.00
-03-15 p138

US series numbers

0401p149 advert #8-10 =uk 9-11 ; 10c and 25c
0415p212 Letter from Henry Morley on Cassell's / Routledge conflict, as he edits one series for each (Routledge's Universal); alludes to two Cassell's delayed for conflict [21]
p206 news item on same [22]
0501p225 advert numbers #1 to #15 =uk 2 6 4 5 7 3 8 9 10 11 11=12 [12-13 Trenck I-II =uk 26-27] 14=13 15=14 (King Solomon's Mines is 1 of 4 new in the Rainbow Series (large, illuminated paper covers, 25c)


American Bookseller

see also Publisher:John W. Lovell, bottom of page

Am Bk at HathiTrust

Year, Volumes -- NOTE some HathiTrust volumes are incomplete, or lack the index
1876, vols 1-2
1877, v 3-4
1878, v 5-6 -- v5 missing at HathiTrust
(earliest hit for "Additions to the Libraries" at ProQuest: v5 n10 p414, 1878-05-15)
1879, v 7-8 -- v8 missing at HathiTrust
1880, v 9-10
1881, v 11-12
1882, v 13
1883, v 14
1884, v 15-16
1885, v 17-18
1886, v 19-20
1887, v 21-22
1888, v 23-24
1889, v 25-26
1890, v 27-28
1891, v 29(fortnightly) --v29 missing at HathiTrust, v30 reported

(See #Vol XXX.


2013-03-11 the table now extends beyond the timespan of Cassell's National Library (earliest 1886-04-01 as simply "National Library")


numbers of "Additions to the Libraries" found by one or two searches at Proquest (about 40% of all hits for that title)

  • 1886, 22 --not Jul 15, Nov 15
  • 1887, 21 --not Jul 15, Nov 1, Nov 15
  • 1888, 21 --not Feb 1, Jul 15, Nov 15
  • 1889,
  • 1890,
  • 1891,
later 1891, evidently missing at ProQuest, see HathiTrust data below #Vol XXX


The American Booksellers Guide (earliest 1875 hits for "American Bookseller", 5) including:

  • that title, Aug 1
  • that title, Dec 1 p456 "PROSPECTUS FOR 1876. // The present number closes the Seventh Volume of The American Booksellers' Guide. With the beginning of the new year it will be issued semi-monthly as The American Bookseller. ..." [23]

1876-01-01, Vol. 1, Iss. 1 (cover) [24] "within which is incorporated The American Booksellers' Guide." $1/yr

1878 -- Volume 5, begins Issue 10

0515 p414 inclg simply Dime Library #36-39, Half-Dime Library #40-42, Seaside Library #319-55
0601 p474
0615 p512

1879

1880 -- Volume 9 (no view 2019-03-11)

0101 p38
0115 p69
0201 p124
0215 ?
0301 p219
0315 p249
0401 p298
0415 p345
0501 p400
0515 p432
0601 p483
0615 p514

1881 82 83 84 -- Volumes 11-16 (six in four years, with 1882 1883 as vols 13 14)

1885 -- Volume 18 (no view 2019-03-11)

0701 p5
0715 p27
0801 p69
0815 p89
0901 p106
0915 p131
1001 p198
1015 p224
1101 p251
1115
1201 p483
1215 p503


2019-03-09/11 systematic research via ProQuest
double-indentation identifies notes from content other than "Additions"

1886

  • 1886 includes Lovell's Library #700-27, 33-42, 52-92, 823-37 (93 of 137 numbers)
0101p4 -- ; LL--
0115p21 -- ; LL--
0201p43 -- ; LL--
0215p80 -- ; LL--
0301p101 -- ; Lovell's 711-17
0315p136 -- ; Lovell's 700-710 (Seaside--Pocket is nine from #723-40; Wide Awake is #712)
0401p268 "National" #1-9 =uk 2-10 as 2 6* 4 5 7* 3* 8 9 10; LL--
0415p204 "National" #10-11 =uk 11-12 ; Lovell's 718-27
0501p228 "National" #12-13 (Trenck, Bacon[revised]) ; LL--
0515p252 "National" #13-16 (Trenck II, Scott, Luther, Bacon) =uk (nil) 13-15 ; Lovell's 733-42
0601p278 "National" #17 =uk 16 ; LL--
0615p301 -- ; Lovell's 743-51

HEREAFTER the "Additions" are listed as to "Cassell's National Library" (not simply "National Library".

0701p4 #18-23 =uk 17-22 ; LL--
0715--- "Additions" not found at PROQUEST
0801p94 #24-27 ; LL--
0815p112 #28-29 =uk 29-30 ; Lovell's 752-62
0901p127 #30-31 =uk 31-32 ; Lovell's 763-83
0915p157 #32-33 =uk 33 [34] 35 ; Lovell's 784-92
1001p228 #34-35 =uk 34 36 ; LL--
1015p256 #36-37 =uk 37 38 ; LL-- [Harper's Handy Series #96-97, 97 The Phantom City]
p268 London Correspondence dated 1886-10-01 notes Cassell "announcementes" uk #37-40 unnumbered
1101p314 #38-41 =uk 39 40 [41] 43 42 ; LL--
1115--- "Additions" not found at PROQUEST
1201p531 #42-44 =uk 41 44 45 ; LL--
1215p558 #45-46 =uk 46 47 ; Lovell's 823-37 ==GAP missing Lovell's #793-822 (30)==

1887

  • 1887 listings include Lovell's Library #838-962, 972-94, 1000-72, 77-93, 1100
0101p5 #47-49 =uk 48-50 ; Lovell's 838-50
0115p28 #50-51 =uk 51-52 ; LL--
0201p52 #52 =uk 53 ; Lovell's 851-76
p46 "New Publications, 1886" lists Cassell's "Rainbow" Series of new and original novels (13 inclg 6th, King Solomon's Mines) = possibly Jan86 to Jan87?
p47 Advertisement lists #1-52 --concludes with UK #52-53
0215p124 #53-55 =uk 54-56 ; Lovell's 877-95
0301p148 #56-57 =uk 57-58 ; LL--
0315p184 #58-59 =uk 59-60 ; Lovell's 896-917
0401p208 #60-61 =uk 61-62 ; Lovell's 918-33
0415p254 #62-63 =uk 63-64* ; Lovell's 934-41 (#941, Dawn by H. Rider Haggard, also as Seaside-Pocket #959; Munro's Library #726 "It."--The Most Popular Book of the Age)
0502p270 #64-65 =uk 65-66 ; Lovell's 942-62
0516p288 #66-68 =uk 67 68 [69] 70 ; LL--
p292 London correspondence dated 1887-04-30 notes Patmore "is in its third edition", "the first being taken before publication, the second sold immediately
0601p310 #69-70 =uk * 69 (* De Quincey, Murder as a Fine Art --in Lucian's place?); LL--
0615p326 #71-72 =uk 71-72 ; Lovell's 971-94 (here-listed 71 Trips to the Moon)
0701p4 #73-74 =uk same ; Lovell's 1000-20 (Allan Quatermain #1020)
0715--- "Additions" not found at PROQUEST
0801p87 #75-78 =uk same ; Lovell's 1000-33 (Allan Quatermain #1020)
0815p101 #79-80 =uk same ; Lovell's 1034-40
0901p118 #81-83 =uk 81-82 and unknown ; 1046-65 (corrupt; evidently pieced together)
0915p143 #84-86 ; Lovell's 1066-72
1001p218 #87-88 ; LL--
87 Shakespeare, King Henry VIII; 88 Burke, Essay on the Sublime and the Beautiful
1015p246 #89-91 ; LL--
1101--- "Additions" not found at PROQUEST
1115--- "Additions" not found at PROQUEST
1201p480 #92-98 ; Lovell's 1077-93 and 1100 A Tale of Three Lions, Haggard (also as Munro's #1049)
[25] (#94 Sintram, #97 Vathek) ; Munro's 25c is full of Haggard and Haggard parody
1215p498 -- ; LL--

1888

  • 1887 listings include Lovell's Library #1093-1117, 29-51, 1153--1309
0102p3 #99-101 ; Lovell's 1093-1105 (Three Lions now #94 in Lovell's Household Library)
99 Southey, Colloquies; 100 Plutarch Agesilaus, etc; 101 Shakespeare, A Winter's Tale
0115p20 #102-03 ;
102 The Table Talk of John Lelden; 103 Pepys June-Oct 1667
0201
0201p35 Advertisement lists #53 to #104 --*#83-104 on-genre except Sintram and Vathek
0215p112 #104-08 ; Lovell's 1102-17
104 Defoe; 105 Dickens; 106 Piozzi Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.; 107 Plutarch Solon, etc; 108 Shelley Prometheus, etc
0301p134 #109-10 ; LL-- (GAP) (maybe CORRUPT)
109 Dodd, The Republic; 110 Shakespeare, King Lear
0315p163 #111-12 ; Lovell's 1129-43
111 Reynolds, Seven Discourse; 112 Fox, James the Second
0401p178 #113-15 ; LL--
113 Pepys 1667-68; 114 London in 1731; 115 Jewell Apology
0415p199 #116-19 ; Lovell's 1144-51 (Munro's 824 A Queer Race)
0501p230 -- ; Lovell's 1153-74
0515p246 #120-123 {GAP 4) ; LL--
120 Persia II; 121 Pepys 1668; 122 Coriolanus; 123 Milton, Areopagitica
0601p264 -- (Cassell's Sunshine Series #1-4) ; Lovell's 1175-80 (Munro's published by John W. Lovell Company)
0615p286 #124-26 ; LL--
124 Carlyle, Essays on Goethe; 125 King Richard II; 126 Plato's Crito and Phaedo
0701p4 -- (Rainbow 25, Sunshine 7) ; Lovell's 1181-88
0715--- "Additions" not found at PROQUEST
0801p84 #127-131 (Rainbow 26, Sunshine 9-13) ; LL-- [26]
0815p108 #132-34 (Addison, Johnson, Shakespeare) ; LL--
0901p124 #135 ; Lovell's 1189-1208
0915p158 #136 Marmion, Sir Walter Scott =uk 134 (Rainbow 27, Sunshine 15)
1001p236 -- (Sunshine 16) ; Lovell's 1208-44
1015p260 #137-43 [27] ; LL--
1101p293 #144-46 (Southey, Petty, Shakespeare) (Rainbow 29, Sunshine 16) ; Lovell's 1245-75
1115--- "Additions" not found at PROQUEST
1201p449 #147-49 (Carlyle, Plutarch, Defoe) ; Lovell's 1276-1309 (Verne's Moon, #1294, 1300)
1215p468 #150-52 (Shakespeare, Dryden, Plutarch) ; LL--

1889

0101p5 #153 (The Amber Witch) ; Lovell's 1310-33, 35-36
0115 CONTENTS listing: "Additions to the Libraries, 1888 ... [p]53"
0201 ? no hit, neven Contents
0215 ? no hit, neven Contents
0301p99 #150-58 [28] ; Lovell's 1348-61
0315 ? no hit, neven Contents
0401p125 belated #102--153 (Rainbow 26-29; Sunshine 20-21) ; Lovell's 1348-69
p133 Books and Bookmakers, "Owing to a blunder on the part of the printer, the additions to Cassell's National Library were omitted from the annual list of the Bookseller. They will be found in the present issue." (same for two other libraries)
0415p144 -- (Rainbow 30, Sunshine 23) ; Lovell's 1370-76
0501p173 -- (Sunshine 24-26) ; Lovell's 1377-86
0515p193 -- ; --
0601p208 (Sunshine 27-29) ; Lovell's 1387-1403
0615p230 -- ; --
0701p250 (Sunshine 30) ; Lovell's 1404-10
0715
0801p329 (Sunshine 31-33) ;
0815p348 -- ; --
0902p364 -- ; --
0916p402 (Sunshine 34) ; --
1001 ?
1015p492 -- ; --
1101p515 (Sunshine 36) ; --
1115
1201p666 (Sunshine 37-39) ; Lovell's 1411-27

WARNING page 666 at HathiTrust lists #1411-50 53 56-57, which establishes that some displays assembled at ProQuest are corrupt. (Consult also its Page View, where possible.)

1216p684 -- ; --
p698 "SPECIAL // To Publishers, ... // We beg to announce to the trade generally, that The American Bookseller for FEBRUARY 1st will contain a complete list of all books published in the United States during the year 1889, including imported editions, reprints, and ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARIES. The Catalogue is not a mere index or summary of advertisements contained in the issue, but a full Catalogue of the Publications of the year. It has been most carefully prepared, and is arranged alphabetically by "Authors", with titles, prices, publishers'names, and cross references in the case of important books.
[continued]" [29]

Lovell's Library at WorldCat

H. Rider Haggard in Lovell's Library

WorldCat (9 records)

848, 1887-01-26 (c)1884, She : a history of adventure o[173821258] 227 pp
876, [188-?], The Witch's Head o[81794628] 300 pp ; 18cm, wrapper
900, 1884, Jess o[81064902] 242 pp ; 18cm, wrapper
19.941, [1887], Dawn o[7521628] 416 pp
21.1020, [1887], Allan Quatermain: ... o[894907277] 226 pp ; online
1100, 1887, A Tale of Three Lions o[29943127] 58 pp
1183, 1888, Mr. Meeson's Will o[29943146] 190 pp
1306, [1888], Colonel Quaritch, V.C. o[48713177] 280 pp
1306, 1901 Colonel Quaritch, V.C. o[660327516] 341 pp ; Longmans, New impression, 20cm
Florence Marryat

WorldCat (14 records) -- lacking those announced #1453 1456

late issues
1421, 1889-08-20 [1889?], The Silence of Dean Maitland o[54084516] 352 pp ;
1426, 1889-08-31 [1889], Toilers of Babylon o[908390123] 294 pp ; "Entered ..." 1889-08-31
1433, 1889-09-11, Uncle Piper of Piper's Hill : an Australian novel o[1085352736] 348 pp ; --11 and 22 days after #1421, 26
1448, 1889, "Sheba" o[62414985] 302 pp ; by "Rita" as #1778
1450, 1889-10-25, o[52059442] 202 pp ; Frank F. Lovell & Co. --44 days after #1433
unique hit (Frank F. Lovell; se:"Lovell's library")

5 issues as 11 days; 7 as 11; 17 as 44 = net 29 numbers as 66 days

1890

0101p5 -- ; --
0115p20 -- ; --
0201p44 -- ; --
p39 #154-208 (57, inclg two a/b)
0215p120 (Sunshine 40-41) ;
0301p136 -- ; --
0315p153 -- ; --
0401p184 (Sunshine 43) ; (four Series in Lovell section, inclg L's Leather Clad Tales #1-7)
0415 ?
0501p232 -- ; (ten Series in Lovell section of the list)
0515 ?
0601 ?
0615 ?
0701p4 (Sunshine 50-51) ;
0715
0801p101 (six Lovell's)
0815p116 (Sunshine 52) ; (Lovell's Westminstere Series #1-10)
0901p136 -- ; --
0915p170 -- ; --
1001p228 (Sunshine 56) ; --
1015p245 -- ; --
1101p278 -- ; --
1115
1201p434 -- ; --
1215p453 (Sunshine 57) ; --

1991 (now fortnightly?)

0103p6 -- ; -- [Harper's Franklin Square Library 688-89] [New York Detective Liibrary #421-22]
0117p21 -- ; --
0131p43
0214p124 (Sunshine 59) ; --
0228p141 (Sunshine 58, 60) ; --
0314p157 (Sunshine 61) ; --
0328p189 -- ; --

(three weeks)

0418p205 (Sunshine 65-66) ; --
0425p236 (Sunshine 67-68) ; --
0509p253 (Sunshine 69-70) ; [Seaside Library 1592, 1648, much of 1766-1832]
0523p269 (Sunshine 71 73) ; Lovell's International Library 152 57 60 63=Eric Brighteyes
0606p284 (Sunshine 72) ; four Lovelll's inclg Westminster 28 32

That is Vol. 29, Iss. 12 --and the latest 1891/92 hit at ProQuest

search "American Bookseller" 1891/92 (about 400 hits as items in Vol. 29); the next two hits are the latest of year 1892 (likely out-of-business notices)

  • 415. LITERARY NOTES // New - York Tribune (1866-1899); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]19 June 1891: 8.
  • 416. Literary Notes // Christian Union (1870-1893); New York Vol. 44, Iss. 1, (Jul 4, 1891): 33.


Vol XXX

1891 Jul--Dec, v30 index at HathiTrust (Additions 4 106 127 168 193 218 323)
of 330 pages, as XXX:11 (-12-15), with advertisement of Illustrated Christmas Number, 25c
1891 vol 30 (viewed at HATHITRUST)
0704 #1-p4 (Sunshine 76-77) ; no Lovell's in name ; Wide Awake Library 1055-56
0718 #2
0801 #3 dnf [Wide Awake issue numbers are consistent with this absence]
0815 #4
0829 #5-p107 (Sunshine 78) ; five Lovell's ; Wide Awake 1057-63
0912 #6-p127 -- ; three Lovell's
0926 #7-p168 (Sunshine 80 84) ; four Lovell's inclg Westminster #33
1010 #8-p193 (Sunshine 79 81-83 85-87) ; three Lovell's inclg Westminster #40
Seaside Library #1892-95
1024 #9-p218 -- ; three Lovell's inclg Westminster #36
?
1201 #10, excluding a November "Christmas Number" . ?
--1889 Christmas Number appears to be #10-- begins following #9-p532 (November 1) at HathiTrust, ie pp. 533-660 (128 pages), and is followed by #11-p661 (December 1)
1215 #11-p323
Cassell's Sunshine Series #89-91
three Lovell's series inclg Westminster #35 41 44
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