A World Beneath the Waters, or Merman's Country

Overview:

  • Title: A World Beneath the Waters, or Merman's Country
  • Author: The Rev. Gerard W. Bancks, M.A.
  • Year: 1895
  • Publisher: Cassell & Company
  • Price: 3/6
  • Pages: 159
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: A World Beneath the Waters, or Merman's Country
  • Notes:
    • Publication date from "Notes and News" The Academy 1194 (1895-03-23) p255, "will publish early next month", supported by the author's manuscript note.
    • Price from review in "Books of the Week" Manchester Guardian 1895-05-07 p9 (negative; see the novel record).
    • HDL e-copy reported below contains the author's manuscript note on personal stationery, which probably begins "Ap 30 1895"; "Dear Mr. Jackson". Jackson had seen a previous version evidently. Bancks mentions publication "a few weeks ago".
    • HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) provides full view of one copy with the original cover (front cover red cloth with gold stamped illustration, no lettering; spine not displayed). -- title page credits 44 original illustrations by "Crow" -- no Illustrations list -- text spans p1-159; p159 footer "Printed by Cassell & Company, Limited, La Belle Sauvage, London, E.C." -- back pages 1-4, "Selections from Cassell & Company's Volumes" (all priced, none dated)

      • Some 12(?) of the illustrations are full-page captioned and signed drawings, reproduced as frontispiece and plates included in the pagination. Among those printed with the text (30?), some take more than half a page. • Cover illustration (gold stamped on red cloth) is that of page 110.