• Publication: The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's TalePublication Record # 707228
• Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
• Date: 1889-09-00
• Publisher: Cassell & Company
• Price:
  5/-^?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: viii+332
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • UK edition 1st ed. of the novel as a book, simultaneous with the US ed. (The serial concluded in Scribner's Magazine for October, published in London as well as New York during the last week of September.) Library records suggest a stated "First edition".
  • Publication date (inferred) and price from listings in full-page publisher advertisements: • as "Now ready, price 5s.", atop "Some of Messrs. Cassell & Company's New and Forthcoming Volumes", The Spectator 63.3195 (1889-09-21) p384 • as "Crown 8vo, cloth, 5s.", one week earlier among "... Volumes for the season 1889-90", The Athenaeum #3229 p368
• External IDs:
  • BL: 003501388
  • LCCN: 50-41965
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 527626

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• The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale • (1889) • novel by Robert Louis Stevenson (variant of The Master of Ballantrae)