The Alchemist; or, The House of Claes
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Overview:
- Title: The Alchemist; or, The House of Claes
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Year: 1861
- Publisher: Rudd & Carleton
- Price: $1.00
- Pages: 310
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: The Alchemist; or, The House of Claes
- Notes:
- WorldCat record OCLC 8680097 reports: -- {{tr|O.W. Wight and F.B. Goodrich}} -- "Philosophical Studies" is displayed "at head of title". -- Novels of M. Honorʹe de Balzac. Library edition,, v. 3
- Publication date inferred from listings in "New Announcements" and "New Publications", American Publishers' Circular [APC] 1861-03-30 p118 and -04-27 p150; and classified advertisement NY Times -04-08 p1, "The Next Balzac Novel ... will be ready next week ...".
- Price from apparent back cover of A Key to the Disunion (1861): "Attractive New Books", this listing "Balzac's Novels ... Three Novels are now ready-- [listed, this one 3rd of 3] Price $1.00 each." (viewed at HathiTrust)
- Preface by the translators --reported and quoted, APC 1861-04-27, which names both. The earlier notice, APC 1861-03-30, names only one translator thus: (quote) Translated from the French by F. B. Goodrich ("Dick Tinto.")