Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
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Overview:
- Title: Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
- Author: George MacDonald
- Year: 2008
- ISBN-10: 9781842276150
- Publisher: Paternoster
- Price: £19.99
- Pages: 284
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
- Notes:
- Special edition (title page) 150th Anniversary Edition (Amazon page heading) Special annotated ed. (British Library record BL) The Annotated 150th Anniversary Edition (front cover)
- Publication date (as 1 Oct 2008), price, and cover image from Amazon UK 2019-06-30
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Amazon UK provides "Look inside" that includes much of the Introduction and back sections but no pages of the novel, so the nature of its Annotation by Page is unknown.
Copyright page shows:
-- 1st printing per numberline
-- "Introduction and notes copyright (c)Nick Page 2008"
-- "Paternoster is an imprint of Authentic Media" over street addresses in Milton Keynes UK, Colorado Springs USA, Secunderabad India
Authentic Media, in turn, is a division of registered charity.
-- (finally) "Printed and bound in the USA by Versa Press"
From the Contents list: The novel spans p37-272 approximately. Notes/annotations by Page not segregated in a back section. - WorldCat library record OCLC 606765611, with Contents list, describes the major contents: "an illustrated introduction to MacDonald's life and the novel, annotations, 33 pre-Raphaelite line drawings, and an essay by MacDonald on fantasy literature."
- "Excerpts from Novalis", p. 274, is the original preface, namely German-language quotations, with its source identified and some transcription errors noted.