Notes
Published as a book for the 1864 Christmas gift season, with 1865 date, in two editions distinguished by cover color (dark blue, red) and illustrations (black-and-white, hand-coloured).
Archive.org (above) provides a copy of the black-and-white 1st ed. See publication records of the 1864 eds. for links to more convenient online copies of both.
The Examiner 1864-12-17 p807, "Gift-Books for the Young", notes this work both as contents of Routledge's Every Boy's Annual and as published alone: "Of the books which represent boy-heroes achieving miraculous adventures in all corners of the globe, we are glad to see that Mr Bennett's jest of the young Munchausen is this year the chief and almost only representation."
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Published 1864 as a 12-part serial in Every Boy's Magazine #24 to #35 (as January to December, as volume 3?)
• "Young Munchausen. By C. H. Bennett. Illustrated by the Author." – so listed among Contents of #24, "The first number of the new volume", as due 1863-12-18, The Athenaeum 1863-12-12 p780
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Published November 1864 within Routledge's Every Boy's Annual: An Original Miscellany of Entertaining Literature for 1865, a compilation of the monthly issues (December to November, as January to December?)
• "Adventures of Young Munchausen" – covered among Contents in reviews of the Annual including The Athenaeum #1934 (1864-11-19) p671
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HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of the Annual for 1864, evidently the first and containing contents of the monthly issues from 1863 (volume 2?), and some later issues including 1866. Those are not presented as bound volumes of the monthly magazine but they may contain all numbered pages of the magazine.
HathiTrust does not hold any issues of Every Boy's Magazine, as of March 2019 apparently.
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Published for the 1864 Christmas gift season, as 1865.
Distinguished by its black-and-white plates and dark blue cover.
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Publication date and price from "Routledge, Warne & Routledge's List of New Books", The Athenaeum #1928 (1864-10-08) p474, as "In cloth gilt, price 5s."
That is the earliest notice of the work published as a book, found 2019-03-08 in automated search of 1864 newspapers and magazines. The same listing is last found -11-12, thereafter "5s.; or with Coloured Plates, 7s. 6d." (earliest found -11-19, in "[RWR]'s List of Gift-Books"). The collection of advertisements found in the weekly Athenaeum implies October and November publications.
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Google Books provides full text and images of one copy with dark blue cover, as displayed here.
Bennett is credited as Charles Bennett on the cover.
Title page:
-- (quote) related and illustrated by C. H. Bennett, in twelve "stories."
-- 1865
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Human figures of the front cover decoration are two from the illustration for "Story the Sixth: Of Wagers", reproduced as a plate facing page 47.
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WorldCat library records (OCLC, below) report the 2nd ed. (red cover) and note this one, "Issued also with uncolored ill."
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The only British Library record (BL, below) reports "1865 [1864]" --published during 1864 with 1865 date-- without detail that would identify the edition.
