• Publication: The Vanished Diamond: A Tale of South AfricaPublication Record # 707024
• Author: Jules Verne
• Date: 1885-10-00
• Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
• Price:
  7/6^?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).
• Pages: 263+32
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes: Format is post 8vo. Novel ends on page 263. Followed by a page with printer information then a 32 page publisher's catalogue. The title page states "Illustrated", but the images match those from the original French edition by Léon Benett. Sources:

  • Content from a scanned copy at books.google.ca.
  • Title (The Vanished Diamond), publisher (Sampson Low), date (October 1885), format, price (7s6d) and translation from Jules Verne Encyclopedia.
  • Title (The Vanished Diamond), publisher (Sampson Low), date (1885) and translation from jv.gilead.org.il.
  • Title (The Vanished Diamond, A Tale of South Africa), publisher (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington) and date (1885 and October 1885) from www.julesverne.ca.

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• The Vanished Diamond: A Tale of South Africa • [Voyages extraordinaires • 25] • novel by A. Laurie and Jules Verne (trans. of L'Étoile du Sud 1884) [as by Jules Verne]
•  The Vanished Diamond: A Tale of South Africa • interior artwork by Léon Benett