The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies

Overview:

  • Title: The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies
  • Author: I. Zangwill
  • Year: 1894
  • Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
  • Price: $1.50
  • Pages: x+400
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies
  • Notes:
    • 1st ed., 1st printing Price from listing in publisher advertisement, Outlook 1894-01-13 p83, as "In the Press."
    • The book is noted "in press" again in "Literary Notes", NY Times -01-29 p3. Publication prior to that of the UK edition (Heinemann, March?) is not certain from newspapers.
    • Earliest found otherwise: "Zangwill's Stories", Chi. Tribune 1894-03-11 p40 (no price)--a substantial review by E.J.M. as "expected with interest on both sides of the Atlantic", by the Jewish novelist "favorably known to the readers of periodical literature".
    • Data are from the June 1909 ed./printing by The Macmillan Company (see), whose copyright page (viewed at Internet Archive) states:   Copyright, 1893,   By Macmillan and Co.   ------   Set up and electrotyped January, 1894. Reprinted April, 1894; September, 1895; January, 1897; October, 1898; August, 1899; June, 1909. [end quote; US printer statement follows]
    • This first edition, and its first two listed reprints, must be published by Macmillan and Co., as prior to the mid-1896 reorganization when Macmillan operations in New York City were incorporated as The Macmillan Company.