Note—This book was published in June, 1872. I do not know which shade of binding is the earlier.
1873
THE TRUE CROSS: A Legend of the Church. By G. J. Whyte-Melville. Author of The Gladiators, Sarchedon etc. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1873. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅜). Pp. (iv) + 241 + (1). Publishers' catalogue, 32 pp., dated January, 1873, bound in at end. Green (or chocolate) cloth, blocked in black and gold. Pale yellow end-papers.
Notes—(i) This book was published in March, 1873.
(ii) Copies in red-brown cloth, gilt, without decorative blocking, are of later issue, although they sometimes contain a catalogue of the original date. Which shade of the original binding is the earlier, I do not know.
1874
UNCLE JOHN: A Novel. By G. J. Whyte-Melville. Author of Market Harborough, The Gladiators, Kate Coventry, Satanella etc. etc. London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. 1874. 3 vols. Cr. 8vo (5 × 7⅜).
Vol. I. pp. (viii) + 267 + (1).
Vol. II. pp. (viii) + 236.
Vol. III. pp. (viii) + 218 + (2).