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The Mid-Nineteenth-Century Novel
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romances of Wilkie Collins with vignette illustrations
(Antonina; Basil; Hide and seek; The dead secret; The Queen of
hearts; The woman in white); also with No name in Low’s
Favourite Lib of Popular Books.
Smith Elder, popular edn, 1865–72. 10 titles, adding to Low’s After
dark, Armadale, and The moonstone.
Chatto & Windus, from 1875. Several cheap edns including the New
Illus Lib, Piccadilly Novels and popular edns. By 1890, Chatto pbd
29 titles which continued to be issued in various formats well
into the twentieth century.
Harpers, New York 1873–1902. 17 titles in a variety of forms including
the Illus Lib Edn, Lib of Select Novels and Cheap Edn.
Collier, New York 1900. The works of Wilkie Collins in 30 vols, rptd
New York 1970. Several titles were issued in unauthorised
nineteenth-century edns: e.g. New York, Fireside, Lovell and
Seaside Libs; Chicago, Lakeside Lib; Philadelphia, Peterson.
Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1856–90. 28 titles in 50 vols in the Collection of
British Authors.
Modern publishers include Oxford (WCp), Alan Sutton (Stroud) and Dover
(New York), all of whom have also issued various collections of short stories.
The 1994 Complete shorter fiction (ed J. Thompson) includes several works not
previously reissued or which had originally appeared in the US and not pbd in
the UK. The Wilkie Collins Society (WCS) reprints short pieces not previously
reprinted.
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Br and Amer edns of individual titles are listed in separate sequences.
Iolani; or, Tahiti as it was: a romance. Ed I. B. Nadel, Princeton 1999
[1844].
Memoirs of the life of William Collins, Esq, R.A.: with selections
from his journals and correspondence. 2 vols 1848 (frontispiece
portrait and illus titles), Wakefield 1978 (1 vol facs with new
indexes).
Antonina; or, the fall of Rome: a romance of the fifth century. 3 vols
[Feb] 1850, 3 vols [May] 1850 (2nd edn, rev with rev preface), 3 vols
1853 (1st edn sheets), 1861 (new preface and illus title by J. Gilbert),
1862, 1864, 1865 (Sampson Low), 1865 (Smith Elder), 1871, 1872,
1875 (8 illustrations by A. Concanen), [1877], 1889, 1895, 1896, 1897
(Chatto), 1897 (Routledge Railway Lib no 1245), 1905, 1908. New
York 1850, 1868, 1873, 1874, 1877, 1893, 1898, 1900 (Collier vol 17),
1904, 1916. Leipzig 1863 (Tauchnitz vols 678–9); tr Ger Leipzig
1850.
Rambles beyond railways: or notes in Cornwall taken a-foot. 1851 (12
illustrations by H. C. Brandling), 1852 (2nd edn), 1861 (with The
cruise of the Tomtit, first pbd Household Words 22 Dec 1855),
1865, Philadelphia [1871] (as Sights a-foot), London 1948, 1982.
Mr Wray’s cash-box; or, the mask and the mystery: a Christmas
sketch. (1852) [1851] (preface dated Dec 1851, frontispiece by J. E.
Millais), 1852 (2nd edn, with shortened preface dated Jan 1852),
1991 (in Crime for Christmas, ed R. Dalby), Philadelphia [1862] (as
The stolen mask; or the mysterious cash-box), Stroud 1996.
Basil: a story of modern life. 3 vols 1852, 1856 (Blackwood’s London
Lib), 1862 (with rev letter of dedication, rev text, frontispiece by J.
Gilbert), 1865, 1871, 1872, 1875 (with 8 illustrations by M. F.
Mahoney), 1877, 1885, 1887, 1889, 1890, 1894, 1897 (Downey 6d
Lib), 1897 (Routledge Railway Lib), 1898 (Routledge Handy
Novels no 19), 1901 (Butterworth), 1905, 1910, 1990 (WCp ed D.
Goldman). New York 1853 (Appleton), Philadelphia [1860] (as The
crossed path), New York [1873], 1874, 1880 (Seaside Lib vol 35 no
721), 1893, 1898, 1904, 1900 (in Collier vol 10), 1980. Leipzig 1862
(Tauchnitz vol 620).
Hide and seek. 3 vols 1854, 1861 (sub-titled The mystery of Mary
Grice, rev text and new preface, frontispiece by J. Gilbert), 1863,
1865, 1866, 1871, 1872, 1875 (with 8 illustrations by M. F.
Mahoney), 1876, 1877, [1881], 1889, 1891, 1897 (Routledge Railway
Lib), 1898 (Routledge Handy Novels no 2), 1921. New York 1858
(Dick & Fitzgerald), Philadelphia 1862, New York [1873], 1874,
1877 (Seaside Lib vol 3 no 42), 1898, 1900 (Collier vol 11), 1904, 1981.
Oxford 1993 (WCp ed C. Peters). Leipzig 1856 (Tauchnitz vols
370–1). Tr Rus St Petersburg 1858; Ger Sonderhausen 1864, Fr (by
C. de Cendrey) Paris 1877.
After dark. 2 vols 1856 (6 stories with connecting narrative, 5 first
pbd in Household Words and The angler’s story of the lady of
Glenwith Grange), 1859, 1862 (5 illustrations by [A. B.
Houghton]), 1865, 1870, 1871, 1872, 1876, 1878 (4 illustrations),
1879, 1882, 1888, 1890 (Smith Elder), 1890 (Chatto & Windus, 4
illustrations), 1891 (illus title by W. Crane), 1894, 1907, 1908, 1925.
New York [1856] (Dick & Fitzgerald), Philadelphia [1863], 1873,
1875 (3 illustrations by S. L. Fildes and E. A. Abbey, also includes
Miss or Mrs?, The dead alive, The fatal cradle, ‘Blow up with the
brig!’, The frozen deep, Fatal fortune), 1878 (Union Square Lib no
14), 1881 (Fireside Lib vol 8 no 104, Dime Novel Collection), 1893,
1899, 1900 (Collier vol 19). Leipzig 1856 (Tauchnitz vol 367). Tr
Ger Lemgo 1859, Polish Lwow 1871, Du The Hague 1876.
Individual publication
The traveller’s story of a terribly strange bed first pbd Household
Words 24 Apr 1852 (as A terribly strange bed), 1924 (Holerth Lib
no 52). The lawyer’s story of a stolen letter first pbd Household
Words Christmas 1854 (as The fourth poor traveller), New York
1854 (in The seven poor travellers), [1855]. The French governess’s
story of Sister Rose first pbd Household Words 7–28 Apr
1855 (as Sister Rose), Philadelphia 1855 (first separate edn, as
Sister Rose, wrongly attributed to C. Dickens). The nun’s story of
Gabriel’s marriage first pbd Household Words 16–23 Apr 1853 (as
Gabriel’s marriage); tr Ital Milan 1868. The professor’s story of
the yellow mask first pbd Household Words 7–28 July 1855 (as
The yellow mask), Chicago 1876, 1879 (Seaside Lib no 551), 1879
(Appleton’s New Handy-Vol ser), Philadelphia [187–?]. The lady
of Glenwith Grange, 1947 (Atlantis Books no 2).
The dead secret. First pbd Household Words 3 Jan–13 June 1857 and
Harper’s Weekly 24 Jan–27 June 1857, Littell’s Living Age, Boston
28 Feb–18 July 1857. 2 vols 1857, 1861 (new preface and frontispiece
by J. Gilbert), 1865, 1871, 1872, 2 vols [1874?] (original sheets reissued),
1875, 1877, [1881], 1890, 1892, 1893, 1898, 1899, 1900
(Downey), 1901, 1906, 1929, Stroud 1986, Oxford 1997 (WCp ed I.
Nadel). New York 1857 (Miller & Curtis), Philadelphia 1864, New
York [1873], 1874, 1877 (Seaside Lib vol 1 no 14), 1881 (Fireside Lib
vol 9 no 113), [1887] (Lovell’s Lib vol 20 no 957), [188–?] (Lupton),
1893, 1899, 1900 (in Collier vol 16), 1902, 1979. Leipzig 1857
(Tauchnitz vols 386, 409 (includes A queen’s revenge, first pbd
Household Words 15 Aug 1857)). Tr Rus St Petersburg 1857, 1861;
Fr (by E. D. Forgues) Paris 1858; Du Amsterdam 1858; Ger Leipzig
1862. See also Plays, below.
The Queen of hearts. 3 vols 1859 (11 stories with connecting narrative),
1862 (frontispiece by J. Gilbert), 1865, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874,
1875 (8 illustrations by A. Concanen), 1877, 1885, [1886], 1893,
[1911]. New York 1859, 1874, 1877 (Seaside Lib vol 2 no 32), 1882,
1885 (Seaside Lib Pocket Edn no 591), 1887 (Lovell’s Lib vol 20 no
996), 1899, 1900 (Collier vol 14), 1902. Leipzig 1859 (Tauchnitz vol
493, as A plot in private life and other tales; includes Mad
Monkton, The black cottage, The family secret, The biter bit). Tr
Rus 1875.
Individual publication
The first story, The Queen of hearts, links Brother Owen’s story of
the black cottage, first pbd Harper’s Monthly Mag Feb 1857 (as
The siege of the black cottage). Brother Griffith’s story of the
family secret first pbd Nat Mag Nov 1856 (as Uncle George or the
family mystery). Brother Morgan’s story of the dream woman
first pbd Household Words extra Christmas no Dec 1855 (as The
ostler, 2nd pt of The Holly Tree Inn), 1874 (in The frozen deep
and other stories, altered), Boston 1875 (as Alicia Warlock in
Alicia Warlock and other stories), New York 1894 (in Love’s