THE EVIL GENIUS: A Domestic Story. By Wilkie Collins. London. Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly. 1886. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¼).
Vol. I. pp. viii + 284.
Vol. II. pp. vi + 304.
Vol. III. pp. vi + 265 + (1). Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated May, 1886, bound in at end.
Dark grey-green cloth, gilt, blocked in black. Grey and white decorated end-papers.
Note—This book was published in September, 1886.
1886
THE GUILTY RIVER. By Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White, Armadale, The Evil Genius etc. Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual, 1886. Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, 11 Quay Street. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 4 Stationers' Hall Court. Price 1s. 1 vol. Fcap. 8vo (4½ × 6½). Pp. (viii) + 188 + (12). No half-title. Advertisements occupy pp. (i) to (vi), p. (vii) is title-page, p. (viii) is occupied by advertisements, as also pp. (189) to (200). Buff paper wrappers, printed in dark blue, black and yellow. Advertisements occupy back outside wrapper and spine, which is not printed with title of story.
Note—The wording given above is that of wrapper, not of title-page, because there exist several varieties of the book (all of later date), which can most easily be identified by the discrepancies between their wrappers and that of the first issue.