The Princess and Curdie
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Overview:
- Title: The Princess and Curdie
- Author: George MacDonald
- Year: 1883
- Publisher: J. B. Lippincott
- Price: $1.25
- Pages: vi+255
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: The Princess and Curdie
- Notes:
- 1st US ed. (for the 1882 Christmas season, as 1883)
- Publication date (inferred) and price from publisher advertisement in the weekly The Independent (New York), 1882-12-07 p34 "[JBL] Have Just Published"; as "12mo, extra cloth, $1.25".
- HDL provides full view of one copy -- with original cover evidently by interior illustrator Allen -- title page credits 11 illus. by James Allen -- Contents, p.[v]-vi, lists I-XXXV -- illustrations not listed, plainly signed "James Allen", frontispiece plus plates not included in the pagination -- text spans p1-255 with chapter head and tail decorations -- unnumbered 4-page "Publications of J. B. Lippincott & Co." (all fairy/folklore or juvenile, at a glance)
- Library of Congress (LCCN, below) reports: -- "with eleven illustrations by James Allen" -- "Other system" {{OCLC|2351759}}, but that WorldCat library record reports year 1885 and [9] leaves plates! WorldCat (OCLC, below) reports: -- "bound in light brown cloth, stamped in dark brown and gold" -- "vi, 255, [4] p., [10] leaves of plates" -- "eleven illustrations" In part, differing illustration- and plate-counts may represent various conventions concerning front cover and frontispiece.