The Devil's Dictionary

The first widely available trade printing under the Devil's Dictionary title is Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1925 (reissued 1926, 1935, 1944). It is the first reprint after Neale and is frequently mis-described as a first edition — it is not; it postdates the 1911 Neale Collected Works volume VII by fourteen years. Likewise the 1907 Arthur F. Bird (London) issue and all Cynic's Word Book copies with a printer's imprint on the copyright page fall outside BAL State A. Modern 'Unabridged Devil's Dictionary' editions (from the Joshi/Schultz scholarly recovery) are new editorial texts, not reprints of either first.