The Coming Race

Overview:

  • Title: The Coming Race
  • Author: uncredited
  • Year: 1871
  • Publisher: William Blackwood & Sons
  • Price: 10/6
  • Pages: 292
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Coming Race
  • Notes:
      First edition, published anonymously
    • Publication date and price from publisher advertisement Manchester Guardian 1871-05-15 p1 (quote four lines in full):
      This day is published, THE COMING RACE. In one volume octavo, price 10s. 6d. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London.
      Multiple copies of a two-line notice had been published 1871-04-22 p8, "Shortly will appear // THE COMING RACE".
    • Library records (LCCN and OCLC, below) report five stated "editions" during 1871, 1st to 5th, all as 292 pages. (WorldCat records report 6th ed 1872; 7th, 8th eds 1873 as 280 pages.)
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover -- dedication "Inscribed to Max Müller ..." (Friedrich Max Müller, 1823–1900) -- text spans p[1]-292; p292 closes (all caps) "Printed by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh."