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The Island of Fantasy

Fergus Hume

First published 1892
Publisher Griffith Farran & Co.
Format Hardcover
Type Novel
Pages 288+301+299
Price 31/6


190,000 words --estimate, separately from both 3-volume and 453-page 1892 editions (viewed at HathiTrust)

British Library and WorldCat records of the 1914 Holden & Hardingham edition, the latter as "Holden & Hardingham's sixpenny novels", report "8o" (octavo) and 22cm respectively; both as 191 pages, which implies 1000 words per page if unabridged. Neither comments on the text or layout.

    1st ed. 3 volumes
  • HathiTrust Digital Library (catalog record) provides full view of two copies (3 vols each) with apparently identical interiors. The front covers (3 each) are radically different and those from U California look certainly original. Contents (numbered pages 8, 5, 5) list chapters I-XIII, XIV-XXVI, XXVII-XL. Text spans pp. 9-288, 7-301, 7-[299]. Volume III alone contains back material, publisher advertisements p[301-04]. This publication is not listed.
  • Publication date from notice in The Athenaeum #3372 (Saturday 1892-06-11) p774: Messrs. "announce that on Monday next they will publish ...". The Scotsman Monday 1892-06-13 lists it among "new books that came out last week".
  • Price from listing in "Publications of the Week", The Spectator -06-11 p819, as "3vols, cr 8vo 31/6". That is 10/6 each volume.

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Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Island of Fantasy 1892 Lovell, Gestefeld & Company Unknown Novel 453
The Island of Fantasy 1893 Griffith Farran & Co. Hardcover Novel 453
The Island of Fantasy 1895 United States Book Co. Unknown Novel 453
The Island of Fantasy Cover 1905 R. F. Fenno & Co. Hardcover Novel 453
The Island of Fantasy 1914 Holden & Hardingham Trade Paperback Novel 191
The Island of Fantasy Cover 2009 BiblioLife Hardcover Novel 452
The Island of Fantasy Cover 2010 General Books Trade Paperback Novel 320
The Island of Fantasy 2010 BiblioLife Hardcover Novel 292
The Island of Fantasy 2010 BiblioLife Trade Paperback Novel 292
The Island of Fantasy Cover 2010 Nabu Press Trade Paperback Novel 314
The Island of Fantasy Cover 2011 British Library, Historical Print Editions Trade Paperback Novel 316
The Island of Fantasy 2013 Hanlins Press Trade Paperback Novel 454
The Island of Fantasy 2017 Project Gutenberg eBook Novel 56177