Spot the first: Publisher's catalogue at end: 32 page catalogue dated October 1884 (first issue)
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Spot the first: Preliminary pages: eight roman-numbered preliminary pages (viii, 100 pp.) with no preface to the second edition; the revised edition has xvi preliminary pages including that preface (first edition rather than the 1884 revised edition)
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Spot the first: P. 40, line 11: reads 'business' where later copies have 'pleasure' (first issue)
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Spot the first: Title page, imprint: publisher's address reads Quay Street, without the street number 11 (first state)
Spot the first: Pp. 2 and 7: 'dead man's chest' is printed without capitals (first issue)
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