• Publication: The History of Rasselas, Prince of AbissiniaPublication Record # 725501
• Author: Samuel Johnson
• Date: 1976-00-00
• ISBN: 0-14-043108-X [978-0-14-043108-7]
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Pub. Series: Penguin English Library
• Price:
  £0.60^?£: UK pound
• Pages: 157
• Format:
  pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes: New edition Edited with an introduction by D. J. Enright For this ISBN as of 2019-07-29 Amazon UK shows: • "[title deleted] (English Library) Paperback – 25 Nov 1976" • "Penguin Classics; Reprint edition (25 Nov. 1976)" and provides front cover image as Penguin Classics, with "Look inside" a book with matching cover: Copyright page (quote three lines): -- Published in Penguin Books 1976 -- Reprinted in Penguin Classics 1985 -- 15 17 19 20 18 16 (that is, 15th printing) Thus the Penguin Classics is a later ed./printing. Page numbers below are from the Contents list of that 15th printing, whose listings "Select Bibliography   36" and "Notes   151" suggest no change from the 1976 edition that the national libraries report (BL and LCCN, below). British Library BL and Library of Congress LCCN provide matching data except: • location "Harmondsworth" [UK] vs. "New York, [etc.]" • BL reports paper cover and price £0.60 Both give size 19cm, which is ambiguous, but ISFDB records (5) show this is a pb-only series during the 20th century.
• External IDs:
  • BL: 011931698
  • BNB: GB7701777
  • Goodreads: 530747
  • LCCN: 77-359474
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 495554319 636928626

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 9 • Introduction (The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia) • essay by D. J. Enright
• 39 • The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia • (1759) • novel by Samuel Johnson