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A Modern Utopia was serialised in the Fortnightly Review from October 1904 to April 1905 and first published in book form by Chapman and Hall, London, in April 1905, a volume of about 393 pages. Look for the Chapman and Hall imprint and the 1905 date on the title page; editions from other publishers, such as House of Stratus (2002) and Penguin (2005), are later, and both record that the book first appeared in 1905, the former naming Chapman and Hall. Binding and illustration details were not confirmed from sources we could open.
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Title page of the first edition (1905). Scan: Internet Archive, via the Internet Archive. Public domain.
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Chapman and Hall, London, in 1905, in hardback.
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