A Tale of the House of the Wolfings, and All the Kindreds of the Mark
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Overview:
- Title: A Tale of the House of the Wolfings, and All the Kindreds of the Mark
- Author: William Morris
- Year: 1889
- Publisher: Reeves & Turner
- Price: 6/-
- Pages: 199
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark
- Notes:
- 1st ed., trade hardcover (with a large paper format too)
- Published December 1888, as 1889. This work (no format or price) is covered in "Books of the Week", The Scotsman 1888-12-31 p2: "Very few books--as was natural in the holidays--appeared during the course of last week. ..."
- Price from advertisement of this "New Work by William Morris", The Athenaeum #3191 1888-12-22 p863: "In square post 8vo, cloth, 6s." "A Limited Number on Special Paper, price on application to the Publishers." (In the publisher's full-page list four weeks earlier, this title is annotated "Nearly ready".)
- HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with plain cloth cover (original?): -- title page as 1899 displays (all caps, no punctuation but closing dot): A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse by William Morris. -- t.p. verso identifies Chiswick Press -- narrative, p[1]-199 -- 16 leaves (p2-30 numbered): "December 1888: Reeves & Turner's Catalogue of Publications and Remainders"
- WorldCat record OCLC 3090343 reports a copy that contains 32 pages of publisher's advertisements at back, dated November 1889.
- Brtish Library record BL 002556587 reports the large paper, limited edition of 100 copies, 89 for sale.