Maurice, or The Red Jar: A Tale of Magic and Adventure for Boys and Girls
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Overview:
- Title: Maurice, or The Red Jar: A Tale of Magic and Adventure for Boys and Girls
- Author: The Countess of Jersey
- Year: 1894
- Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
- Price: 6/-
- Pages: 190
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Maurice, or The Red Jar: A Tale of Magic and Adventure for Boys and Girls
- Notes:
- 1st ed., 1st printing
- Publication date (inferred) and price from listings in "Publications of the Week", The Spectator 1894-10-20 p534, and in the earliest advertisement "Macmillan & Co.'s New Books", -10-27 in multiple weeklies.
- HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original front cover (HDL). Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature provides full view of one copy with original cover including spine; front free endpaper inscription closes "Xmas 1894". These appear to be two copies of the same publication, from which the illustrated half-title leaf ("Maurice, Or The Red Jar") is missing from the Baldwin copy. -- title page (Baldwin) -- List of Illustrations lists 9 (frontispiece plus 8 plates not included in the pagination) -- novel spans p1-190 -- two back pages: "Books for Young Readers", Macmillan and Co., London.