The Secret Garden

The census claim is upheld and can be dated, though 'narrowly' overstates it: the American Stokes edition was published in book form on 25 August 1911 and the English edition followed in October 1911 from William Heinemann, London - Stokes precedes by roughly two months, not by days. The Heinemann first English edition is separately collected and is the Charles Robinson book: publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt with a decorative flourish, octavo, 306 pages plus a publisher's catalogue, eight tissue-guarded colour plates, and a title page printed in red and black with a vignette. Both editions are collected and they are not interchangeable - different illustrators entirely. Prior appearance to note: the novel was serialised in ten issues of The American Magazine (published by the Phillips Publishing Co.) from November 1910 to August 1911, illustrated by J. Scott Williams; the Phillips copyright line on the Stokes copyright page is the trace of that serialisation.