Notes—(i) The date 1878 appears under the note of copyright on verso of title.
(ii) This story was issued in the November number of the “International Review,” an American periodical published by Barnes and Co., who brought out the pamphlet described above. In Great Britain the tale appeared in the “Belgravia Annual” (December, 1878), published by Chatto and Windus, but was not reissued in other than periodical form.
1879
THE HAUNTED HOTEL: A Mystery of Modern Venice, to which is added My Lady's Money. By Wilkie Collins. With six illustrations by Arthur Hopkins. London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly. 1879. 2 vols. Demy 8vo (5½ × 8¼).
Vol. I. pp. viii + (ii) + 230 + (2). Publishers' catalogue, 40 pp., dated October, 1878, bound in at end.
Vol. II. pp. (viii) + 259 + (1).
Vol. I. contains five illustrations and Vol. II. one illustration, line engraved and printed separately. Dark brown cloth, gilt, blocked in white. Blue-black end-papers.
Notes—(i) This book, although dated 1879, was actually published in November, 1878.
(ii) My Lady's Money was issued by Tauchnitz in 1879, together with The Ghost's Touch, a story I cannot trace to have appeared in book form in Great Britain.