Drolls from Shadowland

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."
    • 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.)