Father Goose: His Book

No book-club issue is documented for a title of this date. The governing reprint tell is the copyright-page edition statement — any printed edition or printing wording there rules out the first printing. The practical trap is not a book club but the sheer speed of the reprint sequence: six printings of between 10,000 and 30,000 copies each followed within three months of publication, all dated 1899 with the same imprint, so a correct-looking 1899 Hill copy is far more likely to be a later 1899 printing than the first.