Phantastes: A Faerie Romance

Overview:

• Title: Phantastes: A Faerie Romance
• Author: George MacDonald
• Year: 1894
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Price: 3/6
• Pages: viii+280
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Novel
• Title Reference: Phantastes: A Faerie Romance
• Notes: "New Edition" (This may be the edition destroyed by Greville Macdonald).
  Phantastes: A Faerie Romance. By George [...] With 25 Illustrations by J. Bell. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 3s. 6d. --components of the listing in "Chatto & Windus's New Books", 1994/95
  Brief review in Saturday Review #2033 1894-10-13 p419 states "... it is a pleasure to revive our recollections of the shadow-haunted Anodos in the pretty edition before us, which Mr. Bell has illustrated with considerable sympathy and grace."
  
  This entry is for the initial printing.
  October publication is inferred from the closing annotation "[Shortly." in the earliest listings found, 1894-09-22 and -09-29, and no annotation thereafter (e.g. The Athenaeum #3493 1894-10-06 p443, one of many under "New Library Novels").
  
  British Library records (BL, below) use an ambiguous ellipsis, which hints the long original subtitle. Publisher advertisements use the short subtitle "A Faerie Romance". Data from OCLC and BL.