NMLP P-032428 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

The Bishop's Apron

W. Somerset Maugham · Chapman & Hall (UK) · 1906

The whole edition (about 1,500 copies) was printed from a single casting of type; the publisher added "Second Edition," "Third Edition," and "Fourth Edition" to some title pages to feign strong sales, so the true first bears no edition statement on the title page

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-032428 for "The Bishop's Apron" by W. Somerset Maugham (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-032428, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).