Dion and the Sibyls: A Romance of the First Century
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Overview:
- Title: Dion and the Sibyls: A Romance of the First Century
- Author: Miles Gerald Keon
- Year: 1866
- Publisher: Richard Bentley
- Price: 21/-
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Dion and the Sibyls: A Romance of the First Century
- Notes:
- 1st ed. 2 volumes
- Publication date from "Mr. Bentley's List", The Athenaeum 1999 (1866-02-17) p228; this one as "post 8vo." (post octavo) and "[End of month." --and subsequent weekly issues, without the latter annotation. --supported by the next item
- Price from "List of New Publications for the Week", London Review 12.296 (1866-03-03) p265; as "Cr. 8vo." (crown octavo)
- Post octavo? Two eds./formats and prices are possible. Crown octavo is a common book size, perhaps the most common. Wikipedia lists several other octavo specifications not including "post octavo". Numerous advertisements in early 1866 newspapers state "post 8vo.", none with a price quotation. (No price quotation found 2018-12-19, except the one reported above, as "Cr. 8vo.")
- Weekly advertisements of "Mr. Bentley's List" in The Athenaeum consistently list this publication so: Dion and the Sibyls: A Novel. By Miles Gerald Keon, Col. Sec. Bermuda. 2 vols. post 8vo. [Colonial Secretary Bermuda] and consistently identify Mr. Bentley in the footer: Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, W., Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
- Reginald1 gives publisher Bentley Bros.