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<Submitter>Pwendt</Submitter>
<Subject>Tales of the Masque</Subject>
<Note><ul><li>
1st ed.
Uniform with <i>Drolls from Shadowland</i> in its 1893 Lawrence & Bullen 1st ed.; namely "One Vol. 18mo, 3s. 6d." (back page [1])
<li>
December publication is inferred from mid-October to mid-December advertisements. Those in Oct/Nov newspapers and the December Bookman display the heading "Lawrence & Bullen’s Autumn Announcements" and do not indicate that some books are ready. Mid-December this one is noted "[<i>Ready.</i>"
It is covered in review columns, <i>The Academy</i> 1894-12-01 p445 and <i>Manchester Guardian</i> -12-11 p10.
<li>
HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover:
-- <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t1pg1wv9s?urlappend=%3Bseq=9">title page</a> red and black, as "Lawrence and Bullen" (commonly ’&’) with Bull logo
-- stories, p[3]-207; p207 footer "Woodfall & Kinder, Printers, 70-76, Long Acre, W.C."
-- publisher advertisements, back pages [1]-7
The first back pages listing is the 1893 Pearce collection <i>Drolls from Shadowland</i>; the second 1893 Yeats collection <i>Celtic Twilight</i>.
<li>
Spine title <i>Cornish Drolls</i> is reported by the Library of Congress record of a microfilm copy, {{LCCN|85226297}}.
<li>
Library records (LCCN and OCLC, below) provide a list of 15 story titles. All are short short stories and several are vignette length short of 1500 words.
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<ModNote>Restore curated link to title page (rather than plainlink).<br>
Replace that plain link with its Permanent Link (target that redirects to the babel address). ISFDB should use Permanent Link always, right?</ModNote>
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