Tales of the Masque
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Overview:
- Title: Tales of the Masque
- Author: J. H. Pearce
- Year: 1894
- Publisher: Lawrence & Bullen
- Price: 3/6
- Pages: 207
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: Tales of the Masque
- Notes:
- 1st ed. Uniform with Drolls from Shadowland in its 1893 Lawrence & Bullen 1st ed.; namely "One Vol. 18mo, 3s. 6d." (back page [1])
- December publication is inferred from mid-October to mid-December advertisements. Those in Oct/Nov newspapers and the December Bookman display the heading "Lawrence & Bullen's Autumn Announcements" and do not indicate that some books are ready. Mid-December this one is noted "[Ready." It is covered in review columns, The Academy 1894-12-01 p445 and Manchester Guardian -12-11 p10.
- HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover: -- title page red and black, as "Lawrence and Bullen" (commonly '&') with Bull logo -- stories, p[3]-207; p207 footer "Woodfall & Kinder, Printers, 70-76, Long Acre, W.C." -- publisher advertisements, back pages [1]-7 The first back pages listing is the 1893 Pearce collection Drolls from Shadowland; the second 1893 Yeats collection Celtic Twilight.
- Spine title Cornish Drolls is reported by the Library of Congress record of a microfilm copy, {{LCCN|85226297}}.
- Library records (LCCN and OCLC, below) provide a list of 15 story titles. All are short short stories and several are vignette length short of 1500 words.