Drolls from Shadowland
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Overview:
- Title: Drolls from Shadowland
- Author: J. H. Pearce
- Year: 1893
- Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
- Price: $1.25
- Pages: 166
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: An Unexpected Journey
- Notes:
- US edition, essentially simultaneous Printed in London
- This is the source edition for Project Gutenberg Ebook #25307 (see).
- The UK edition was published by Lawrence & Bullen, not Macmillan and Co., but newspapers show this distributed in the US no more than two weeks later. October publication is certain, from the earliest US notice found, a review that reports it available from a local retailer, Det. Free Press 1893-10-23 p3.
- Price from "List of New Books", The Dial 1893-11-16 p306 (received in Chicago too late for issue -11-01), as "Illus., 16mo, pp. 166, uncut."
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Library of Congress (LCCN, below) provides full view of one copy with corduroy blue cloth cover:
-- title page, New York only
-- printer statement, page 166 footer:
Henderson & Spalding, Ltd., Marylebone Lane, London, W.
Illustrated? This LC copy contains a single illustration, uncredited and not clearly signed, apparently mounted, three leaves prior to the title page. (Gutenberg displays it beside the title page.)