First impression
1997- Copyright page
- 1997 is the only date given; full number line from 10 down to 1
- Number line
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1- Print run
- 5,150 (Confirmed by two sources, listed under sources)
- Binding
- Pictorial card wrappers with Thomas Taylor's cover art.
Points of issue
- copyright pageNumber line runs the full sequence from 10 down to 1→ first impression
- rear coverThe title is misspelt 'Philospher's', with the second o missing→ first impression
- p.53In the list of school equipment, '1 wand' appears twice→ early printing (not proof of a first on its own)
Traps and later printings: This ISBN stayed in use for reprints into the 2000s, so the ISBN alone proves nothing. Check the number line and the rear cover.
The hardback and paperback were printed at the same time, and dealers treat neither as having priority.
Printed from the same sheets and issued on the same day as the 500-copy hardback, with no priority either way. Most copies were read hard, so a flat, uncreased copy is scarce. Print run of 5,150 is Errington's figure (via Sotheby's, also quoted by John Atkinson); Bauman gives 5,500, which we treat as an outlier.
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