Famous Impostors

Overview:

  • Title: Famous Impostors
  • Author: Bram Stoker
  • Year: 1910
  • Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson
  • Price: 10/6
  • Pages: ix+349
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Non-fiction
  • Title Reference: Famous Impostors
  • Notes:
    • UK edition, printed in the US
    • Published in January 1911 evidently, although announced for Autumn 1910 and dated 1910. There is a listing in "The Pick of the Publishing Season", The Nation 1910-10-08 p78 supplement (with price). Otherwise this title is found only in 1911, in May 2019 automated search of 1910/1911 UK newspapers and magazines; earliest: • listing in "Publications of the Week", The Spectator 1911-01-07 p28 • review in "Current Literature", The Scotsman -01-19 p2 There are numerous reviews January to April 1911.
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with presumably original front cover. (As of May 2019 it is mis-catalogued as one among several copies of the US edition, with identical page-count.) -- copyright page states British and US copyrights 1910 by Stoker; "Printed in the United States of America" -- Preface, p.v-ix -- Illustrations, [xiii], lists 10 (frontispiece plus 9 plates not included in the pagination); evidently portrait drawings of 10 "impostors" -- text spans p3-345 -- Index, p347-49 Except the title leaf, interior pages appear identical to those of the US edition.