Arabesques: Monarè, Apollyona, Domitia, Ombra
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Overview:
- Title: Arabesques: Monarè, Apollyona, Domitia, Ombra
- Author: Mrs. Richard S. Greenough
- Year: 1872
- Publisher: Roberts Brothers
- Price: $2.00
- Pages: 213
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: Domitia.
- Notes:
- The full text and images of this edition are available at The Internet Archive.
- The full text and images of this edition are available at Google Books.
- Primary Verification done from scanned images.
- Date from title page. Note that Library of Congress date and advertisements (below) indicate this was available for sale in late 1871.
- Price from advertisement in another publication from the same year, author, and publisher.
- Price from advertisement in a November 1871 magazine listing the title as available for the 1871-1872 Holiday season.
- Note that the title page of the collection as well as the individual works, all clearly include a trailing period. This period has been reproduced in later reprints of these stories in other volumes and should be considered part of the title(s). However, this trailing period seems to be an artifact of the typesetter. Every item in the title and copyright section and advertising at the end of the book seems to end in a trailing period: "Contents.", "Roberts Brothers.", "1872.", "From the London Review.", "2. Casimir Maremma. A Novel. Price $2.00.". The later reproduction of the trailing period on the titles appears to be echoing this artifact, as opposed to reproducing the author's intended title.
- Note that there are two bindings. The first is red cloth reproducing the opening artwork of 'Monare' onto the binding (shown here). The second binding is "chocolate-brown" with no front cover illustration. Both scanned copies available online appear to be of the 'Red Line' printing. Note that both advertisements linked mention the 'red-line' printing. No precedence is known between the two bindings, and L.W. Currey gives no precedence or "state". Currey says, of the red binding "This book also exists in a more elaborate decorative binding, but one that is prone to bubbling of the cloth."