• Publication: Sixty Years HencePublication Record # 420036
• Author: The Author of 'The White Slave,' 'Revelations of Russia,' 'Eastern Europe and the Emperor Nicholas.'
• Date: 1847-00-00
• Publisher: T. C. Newby
• Price:
  31/6^?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).
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes: 3 volumes Price 31/6 or one-and-one-half guineas is that reported for the 2nd edition, presumably 2nd printing: The Critic 1847-02-20 p29 "List of New Books"; this one "2nd edit. 3 vols. post 8vo. 1l. 11d. 6s. bds." Earliest publisher advertisement found: The Spectator 1846-07-11 p671, as one of two "New Works Just Ready". (Next found in automated search of 1846/1847 newspapers: The Spectator 1847-01-39 p119, listed first in "Mr. Newby's New Works".) Earliest review found: The Observer 1847-01-17 p5 "Literature"
• External IDs:
  • BL: 003996569
  • LCCN: 44025796
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 24705510
  • Reginald-1: 07105

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• Sixty Years Hence • novel by Charles Frederick Henningsen [as by The Author of 'The White Slave,' 'Revelations of Russia,' 'Eastern Europe and the Emperor Nicholas.']