Red Pottage sold 8,000 copies by November 1899, resulting a second edition of 10,000, which also sold out. Mudie's Library
alone accounted for sales of 2,000 copies. Unfortunately MC
did not reap the financial benefits...
Publishing
Anna Brassey
A frontispiece is a handsome picture of the steam yacht Sunbeam, under full sail. Longman
initially printed one thousand copies priced at a guinea each; this whole print run was taken up by Mudie's Circulating Library
Publishing
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB
and her publisher
(Simpkin, Marshall) locked horns with Mudie's Circulating Library
on the issue of her final triple-decker, Sons of Fire; she had three unpublished one-volume novels in hand to meet the new...