Rip Van Winkle (text by Washington Irving)

Both issues are the 1905 first edition; the signed/numbered vellum limited issue (250 copies, London: Heinemann, 1905) is the senior and most-prized form among collectors, scarcer than the trade green-cloth issue and far scarcer than the later 1,000-copy Midsummer Night's Dream limited (1908). The London Heinemann issue is conventionally cited as the primary first, with a simultaneous US trade issue under Doubleday, Page & Co., New York (1905); on some copies Doubleday is the first-named imprint on the title page, so transatlantic precedence between the two national trade issues is not firmly documented — treat London/Heinemann as first by convention and hedge accordingly.