"Bones and I"; or, The Skeleton at Home

Overview:

  • Title: "Bones and I"; or, The Skeleton at Home
  • Author: G. J. Whyte-Melville
  • Year: 1868
  • Publisher: Chapman & Hall
  • Price: 9/-
  • Pages: v+287
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: "Bones and I"; or, The Skeleton at Home
  • Notes:
    • 1st ed. This is the 1st ed. as a book, and the last two chapters may be published here for the first time (see the novel record).
    • Publication date and price from "List of New Books", The Athenaeum 2121 (1868-06-20) p862-63; this one "cr. 8vo. 9/ cl." That is: crown octavo paper size, price 9s., cloth (? some hard cloth cover inferred, as another listing states "cl. limp"). "Chapman & Hall's List", one week earlier in The Athenaeum 2120 p841 and two other weeklies, lists this book with flushright closing note "[This day." (Saturday -06-13).
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy without original cover: -- title page begins "Bones and I;" -- Contents, p[iv]-v -- text spans p[1]-287; p287 footer "London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street and Charing Cross."