The Pacha of Many Tales

Overview:

  • Title: The Pacha of Many Tales
  • Author: The Author of 'Peter Simple,' 'Jacob Faithful,' &c.
  • Year: 1849
  • Publisher: Richard Bentley
  • Price: 3/6
  • Pages: 378
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Story of the Greek Slave
  • Notes:
    • Known speculative fiction contents alone are listed below.
    • New edition The Standard Novels and Romances is now issued in a cheaper, Three Shillings and Sixpence edition. One front leaf and one back leaf constitute a four-page numbered list #1-20, 21-54, 55-90, 91-121, "To Be Followed by Other Popular Works." (viewed at HathiTrust)
    • Series number and price are from that list.
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy without original cover: -- title page credit (quote 3 lines, small caps):   By the Author of   " Peter Simple," " Jacob Faithful,"   &c. -- t.p. second publisher: "Bell & Bradfute, Edinburgh" -- text spans p[1]-378; p378 footer "London: Spottiswoodes and Shaw, New-street-Square."

      This edition reproduces from the 1835 Saunders and Otley 3-volume edition (see) -- division in 22 chapters numbered I-VII, I-VIII, I-VII; -- mid-page headings (all caps, centred) for all contained stories except the Second Voyage of Huckaback. The Saunders and Otley division in 3 volumes is represented by four interior page footers and headers (small caps): "End of the first volume." "Volume the second." (137, 139) "End of the second volume." "Volume the third." (258, 259).