The Witching Time: Tales for the Year's End

Overview:

  • Title: The Witching Time: Tales for the Year's End
  • Author: Henry Norman
  • Year: 1886
  • Publisher: D. Appleton & Company
  • Price: $0.25
  • Pages: 320
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: By the Waters of Paradise
  • Notes:
    • US edition, 1st ed. as a book The anthology was published weeks earlier in Britain as Unwin's Annual, a magazine at ISFDB.
    • Publication date and price from listing in advertisement "D. Appleton & Co. Publish This Day", Chi. Tribune 1886-12-18 p13; this one "12mo, paper cover".
    • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy, evidently library bound as containing the original paper covers. -- front cover (outside)

      Library records and other secondary sources report page count 315, perhaps universally. The closing poem "Juliet" begins on that page, and continues on numbered pages 316-20. "New and Standard Fiction Published by D. Appleton & Co." is printed on the next 8 unnumbered pages [321-28]. Publisher advertisements continue, p[329-30], which show the original paper back cover leaf--inferred from the radical change in layout, and the fact that the first two non-blank interior pages certainly show the original paper front cover leaf (outside designed to promote the contents, publisher advertisements inside). --viewed as HathiTrust images seq=321 to 336