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A London Macmillan first edition is told by the printing history on the back of the title page: reprints and new editions are listed there, so a copy with no reprint list is the first, and later books carry a "First published (year)" line.
Allen and Patricia Ahearn's publisher list for ILAB says the early books carried no first edition statement but noted subsequent printings. ILAB's St Martin's Press article, drawing on a Macmillan statement of 1982, describes the same reprint history on the reverse of the title page and a "First published (year) by (imprint)" line on first editions from about 1968.
Read the full guide to Macmillan first editions, decade by decade, and check your copy's copyright page against it. Our number line decoder reads the printing from the row of numbers.
We have not yet confirmed the issue points that tell this first impression from later ones. Until we do, compare your copy's title page and copyright page with the publisher, place and year above: any later printing or edition statement means it is not this one.
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Macmillan, London, in 1895, in hardback.
Points of issue are small, documented details, such as a misprint later corrected, a binding colour or a jacket price, …
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