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Dion and the Sibyls: A Romance of the First Century

Miles Gerald Keon

First published 1866
Publisher Richard Bentley
Format Hardcover
Type Novel
Price 21/-

  • 1st ed. 2 volumes
  • Publication date from "Mr. Bentley's List", The Athenaeum 1999 (1866-02-17) p228; this one as "post 8vo." (post octavo) and "[End of month." --and subsequent weekly issues, without the latter annotation. --supported by the next item
  • Price from "List of New Publications for the Week", London Review 12.296 (1866-03-03) p265; as "Cr. 8vo." (crown octavo)
  • Post octavo? Two eds./formats and prices are possible. Crown octavo is a common book size, perhaps the most common. Wikipedia lists several other octavo specifications not including "post octavo". Numerous advertisements in early 1866 newspapers state "post 8vo.", none with a price quotation. (No price quotation found 2018-12-19, except the one reported above, as "Cr. 8vo.")
  • Weekly advertisements of "Mr. Bentley's List" in The Athenaeum consistently list this publication so:   Dion and the Sibyls: A Novel.   By Miles Gerald Keon, Col. Sec. Bermuda. 2 vols. post 8vo. [Colonial Secretary Bermuda] and consistently identify Mr. Bentley in the footer:   Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, W.,   Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
  • Reginald1 gives publisher Bentley Bros.

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