The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale

Overview:

  • Title: The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale
  • Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Year: 1889
  • Publisher: Cassell & Company
  • Price: 5/-
  • Pages: viii+332
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale
  • Notes:
    • UK edition 1st ed. of the novel as a book, simultaneous with the US ed. (The serial concluded in Scribner's Magazine for October, published in London as well as New York during the last week of September.) Library records suggest a stated "First edition".
    • Publication date (inferred) and price from listings in full-page publisher advertisements: • as "Now ready, price 5s.", atop "Some of Messrs. Cassell & Company's New and Forthcoming Volumes", The Spectator 63.3195 (1889-09-21) p384 • as "Crown 8vo, cloth, 5s.", one week earlier among "... Volumes for the season 1889-90", The Athenaeum #3229 p368