Blue cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Pale yellow end-papers.
Contents: Vol. I., The Frozen Deep—The Dream Woman. Vol. II., John Jago's Ghost; or The Dead Alive.
Notes—(i) This book was published on November 2, 1874. The title story appeared serially in the “Temple Bar Magazine”; the remainder were first published in “Household Words” and in the “Home Journal.”
(ii) Copies in brown cloth, with yellow end-papers, printed with Chapman and Hall advertisements, are of later issue.
1875
THE LAW AND THE LADY: A Novel. By Wilkie Collins. London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly. 1875. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅜).
Vol. I. pp. vi + (ii) + 246 + (2). Publishers' catalogue, 40 pp., dated December, 1874, bound in at end.
Vol. II. pp. iv + 269 + (3). Advertisement of author's previous works occupies p. (271).
Vol. III. pp. iv + 341 + (3). Advertisement of author's previous works occupies p. (343).
No half-titles. Dark green cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Pale yellow end-papers.