Three Lives

US Grafton Press, New York, 1909 is the true first and the only edition to collect as such; the census claim is confirmed on precedence but its framing of the 1915 John Lane as a 'UK edition' is misleading and is corrected here. Roughly 700 copies went to the American market; about 300 sets of the same unsold 1909 Grafton sheets were made up for John Lane in London in 1915 with a cancel title leaf, retaining the Grafton binding and the Grafton imprint at the foot of the spine. The 1915 British issue is therefore a re-issue of American first-edition sheets, not a separate edition or a true second edition.