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The play first appeared in book form in Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, & Captain Brassbound's Conversion, published by Grant Richards in London in January 1901 with Shaw's long preface in three parts. The first UK edition of The Devil's Disciple is therefore this collected volume; later Constable printings are not firsts. The title page names all three plays and carries the imprint London: Grant Richards, 1901. The text runs to 308 numbered pages after roman-numbered preliminaries. It was issued in the publisher's cloth (the colour is not recorded in the sources checked), so check for rebinding: one library copy is in a 20th century green cloth with a gilt top edge.
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Grant Richards, London, in 1901, in hardback.
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