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Issue Details: First known date: 1854... 1854 Frank Layton : An Australian Story
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First known date: 1875
Serialised by: The Mercury 1875 newspaper
Notes:
Serialised from 18 September 1875.
Link: Sighted: 15/06/2024
Serialised by: The Leisure Hour : An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading 1852 periodical (4 issues)
      1854 .
      Note/s:
      • Serialised in the Leisure Hour in 1854. Ran to 26 weekly instalments between 5 January - 29 June. Included a b/w illustration at the beginning of each instalment. The author's name was not indicated.
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Religious Tract Society ,       1865 .
      Extent: 286 p. [6] leaves of platesp.
      Description: illus.
      Series: y separately published work icon Leisure Hour Library Religious Tract Society (publisher), London : Religious Tract Society , 1865-1897 22806852 1865 series - publisher novella short story adventure children's

      'The books known as the Leisure Hour Library have long been favourites with a large circle of readers. In process of time some of these have fallen out of date, and the dress in which they were sent forth has become old-fashioned. The Committee of the Religious Tract Society has therefore resolved to issue a new series of stories suited for readers of both sexes, and well adapted for circulation in Sunday school libraries, and as gift and prize books. Each volume extends to 384 pages, and is well illustrated. Some members of the series will contain stories never before reprinted; others will consist of popular volumes of the old library, reissued in the new and more attractive format.

      The present volume, The Black Troopers and Other Stories, is the first of the new issue, and the following - Strange Stories of Peril and Adventure; Remarkable Adventures in Real Life; and Adventures Ashore and Afloat - are published at the same time. Of these the first two have never been printed in book form before; the others are popular members of the old library. It will be found that these volumes abound in adventure, exciting narratives, and stories of bravery and heroism.'

      (Prefatory note, The Black Troopers and Other Stories).
Alternative title: Frank Layton: Eene Australische
Language: Dutch
    • Amsterdam,
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      Netherlands,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       H. Hoveker ,       1856 .
      Extent: iv, 336,[26]leaves of platesp.
      Description: illus.
Alternative title: Frank Layton: Avonturen in Australie
Language: Dutch
    • Amsterdam,
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      Netherlands,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       J. Vlieger ,       1860-1869 .
      Extent: 236p.
      Note/s:
      • Engraved frontispiece and 25 full page illustrations. Marcie Muir's Australian Children's Books (1992) comments: 'Illus. as those which first appeared in the serialized version of the book in The Leisure Hour.'
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