1877
[*]GOLDEN CROWNS: Sunday Stories. By Charles Reade, D.C.L. Manchester: Tubbs and Brooke. 1 vol. 18mo.
Note—This publication was of a kind known as an “18mo packet.” It consisted of a number of loose sheets enclosed in a paper wrapper, designed either to gum or to tuck in, but wholly detached from its contents. Never having seen a copy of the packet in question, I cannot do more than conjecture that the loose sheets bore each a brief moral tale, which a devout parent could administer Sunday by Sunday to the deserving young.
1883
READIANA: Comments on Current Events. By Charles Reade, D.C.L. with a steel-plate portrait. London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly. 1883. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7½). Pp. vi + 329 + (1). Frontispiece and title-page, printed together but not on text paper, are inset between pp. (ii) and (iii). Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated July, 1882, bound in at end. Publishers' advertisement occupies p. (ii). Red cloth, gilt, blocked in black, uniform with the cheap edition of Reade's novels published just previously to this book's appearance. Brown-purple and white decorated end-papers. Engraved portrait frontispiece printed on same paper as title. Line engraving on title-page.
Note—Although this book is dated 1883, it was actually published in October, 1882.
1884
SINGLE HEART AND DOUBLE FACE: A Matter of Fact Romance: By Charles Reade, D.C.L. London. Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly. 1884. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅜). Pp. (iv) + 240. Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated December, 1883, bound in at end. Fawn cloth gilt, blocked in red and blue. Pale green and white decorated end-papers.
Note—This book was published in July, 1884. The story appeared serially in “Harper's Magazine.”