• Publication: The Princess and CurdiePublication Record # 370618
• Author: George MacDonald
• Date: 1883-12-00
• Publisher: J. B. Lippincott
• Price:
  $1.25^?$: US dollar
• Pages: vi+255
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Cover: The Princess and Curdie (1883) • by James Allen (artist)
• Notes:

  • 1st US ed. (for the 1882 Christmas season, as 1883)
  • Publication date (inferred) and price from publisher advertisement in the weekly The Independent (New York), 1882-12-07 p34 "[JBL] Have Just Published"; as "12mo, extra cloth, $1.25".
  • HDL provides full view of one copy -- with original cover evidently by interior illustrator Allen -- title page credits 11 illus. by James Allen -- Contents, p.[v]-vi, lists I-XXXV -- illustrations not listed, plainly signed "James Allen", frontispiece plus plates not included in the pagination -- text spans p1-255 with chapter head and tail decorations -- unnumbered 4-page "Publications of J. B. Lippincott & Co." (all fairy/folklore or juvenile, at a glance)
  • Library of Congress (LCCN, below) reports: -- "with eleven illustrations by James Allen" -- "Other system" OCLC 2351759, but that WorldCat library record reports year 1885 and [9] leaves plates! WorldCat (OCLC, below) reports: -- "bound in light brown cloth, stamped in dark brown and gold" -- "vi, 255, [4] p., [10] leaves of plates" -- "eleven illustrations" In part, differing illustration- and plate-counts may represent various conventions concerning front cover and frontispiece.
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 04-16840
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 759620826

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• The Princess and Curdie • juvenile • [The Princess and the Goblin • 2] • (1877) • novel by George MacDonald
•  The Princess and Curdie • (1883) • interior artwork by James Allen (artist)