A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Overview:

  • Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  • Author: Mark Twain
  • Year: 1896
  • Publisher: Harper & Brothers
  • Price: $1.75
  • Pages: x+433
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  • Notes:
      New edition (an early vol. in Harper's uniform ed. of Twain works; "library ed." per some advertisements or notices)
    • {{LCCN|15-23118}} "[c1889]", links e-copy at HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) -- "x, 433 p. front., plates" (uncredited) {{OCLC|214231907}} "(c)1889"
    • Publ date (June) and price from advertisement by the publisher "Fiction Published Today" identically N-Y Tribune -06-10 p8 and Chi. Tribune -06-15; as "By Mark Twain. New Edition from new Electrotype Plates. With Photogravure Portrait of the author and other illustrations. Crown 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.75."
    • With selected 1889 illustrations by Dan Beard evidently: "One misses in this [Harper & Bros. library] edition the numerous inimitable drawings of Dan Beard that make the larger volume so unique. However there are a number of illustrations by this artist, and a fine portrait of the author." --SL Post-Dispatch 1896-07-05 p24
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one edition as 1896 (rather than as c1889, which LCCN links). Several front leaves are missing. "Illustrations", p[vii]-viii, matches later Harper ed./printings: lists 24 (frontispiece and 23 plates not included in the pagination), namely a selection from only the full-page 1889 illustrations by Dan Beard.