George Routledge & Co. have the honour to announce that they have entered into an agreement with Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, for the publication, in their Railway Library, of his world-wide celebrated novels ...
Publisher: George Routledge & Co.
Published: 1853
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, -- Baron, -- 1803-1873.; Routledge's railway library.; Authors and publishers -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
Notes: "On the 31st December will be ready, Price One Shilling and Sixpence, Pelham; or, The adventures of a Gentleman. Forming Vol. 71 of the Railway Library."--P. [1].

" ... Cheap books sold at railway stations and similar places of human concourse, have enabled Messrs. Routledge to give Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton the extravagant sum of 20,000l. for the exclusive sale of his works for the next ten years ... "--P. [2].

"In 1853 George Routledge paid the unprecedented sum of £20,000 for a ten-year lease fo the copyright to his nineteen existing novels."  Cf. Dictionary of National Biography.

P. [4] consists of a list of 71 titles in "The Railway Library. Price One Shilling each, in fancy boards (except where specified)."

MASS copy: Disbound.