Issued as the first part of a projected larger history; no continuation appeared before Burton's death in 1890. Gelli dates it 1885, but the title page and library catalogues establish 1884.
Pages4 preliminary leaves, [xi]–xxxix, [1], 299 p.
Dimensions27 cm
OCLC770468
London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. First edition.
Quality phase 422: complete digitized text and institutional collation confirm the 1884 first edition and its preliminary matter.
Quality phase 729: individually inspected decorated physical binding of the exact 1884 edition from the institutional or exact-edition digital object; image 600x761, 114282 bytes, SHA-256 B2F8393898E44B00188810F0AC7F7632F0A09A7312BC09421B89FCBC93E6AF98.
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Project Gutenberg — The Book of the Sword
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