• Publication: The Witching Time: Tales for the Year's EndPublication Record # 416167
• Editor: Henry Norman
• Date: 1886-12-18
• Publisher: D. Appleton & Company
• Price:
  $0.25^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 320
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes:

  • US edition, 1st ed. as a book The anthology was published weeks earlier in Britain as Unwin's Annual, a magazine at ISFDB.
  • Publication date and price from listing in advertisement "D. Appleton & Co. Publish This Day", Chi. Tribune 1886-12-18 p13; this one "12mo, paper cover".
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy, evidently library bound as containing the original paper covers. -- front cover (outside) Library records and other secondary sources report page count 315, perhaps universally. The closing poem "Juliet" begins on that page, and continues on numbered pages 316-20. "New and Standard Fiction Published by D. Appleton & Co." is printed on the next 8 unnumbered pages [321-28]. Publisher advertisements continue, p[329-30], which show the original paper back cover leaf--inferred from the radical change in layout, and the fact that the first two non-blank interior pages certainly show the original paper front cover leaf (outside designed to promote the contents, publisher advertisements inside). --viewed as HathiTrust images seq=321 to 336
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 6887345
  • Reginald-1: 10734

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 5 • In Witching Time • (1886) • poem by Austin Dobson
• 7 • By the Waters of Paradise • (1886) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 44 • The Captain's Bride • (1886) • novelette by Laurence Alma Tadema
• 74 • The Spectre of Strathannan • (1886) • novelette by W. E. Norris
• 107 • A Mystery of the Campagna • (1886) • novelette by Von Degen
• 161 • The Witches • (1886) • poem by Edmund Gosse
• 166 • The Hidden Door • (1886) • novelette by Vernon Lee
• 207 • Pothooks and Hangers • (1886) • short story by William Archer
• 228 • Vincent Hadding • (1886) • novelette by A. Mary F. Robinson
• 274 • Two of a Kind • (1886) • novelette by Henry Norman
• 315 • Juliet • (1886) • poem by Louis F. Austin