The Phantom City: A Volcanic Romance

Notes

UK edition, simultaneous with the US or nearly so.
• Publication date (last week of July) and price from Notice by the publisher: "The Phantom City: a Story of Adventure in the Unexplored Regions of Central America [--note the distinctive subtitle--], by W. Westall, will be published next week, price 5s." --The Spectator 59.3030 (1886-07-24) p1000 Two same-day listings --in "Publications of the Week", on the same page, and in "List of New Books", The Athenaeum #3065 p114-- give the known subtitle "A Volcanic Romance", as cloth and Crown octavo respectively.
• The full text and images of this edition are available at The HathiTrust Digital Library. -- front cover, black lettering and decoration on red background (apparently uniform with A Queer Race, 1887) -- Contents, p[vii]-viii -- novel spans p[1]-288 -- "Selections from Cassell & Company's Publications", 8 unnumbered back pages In the latter long alphabetical list, this title appears under 'P' as "5s." and three others by Westall appear under 'W' as "Popular Editions. Cloth. 2s. each."