The Prince and the Pauper

The Chatto & Windus London edition of December 1, 1881 is the edition dealers customarily call the true first, published just ahead of the Osgood Boston edition of December 12, 1881 to secure British copyright. Dawson Brothers of Montreal separately printed roughly 275 copies in paper wrappers in late November 1881, earlier still, but only to support an ultimately unsuccessful attempt at Canadian copyright; this printing is exceptionally scarce and is not what the trade treats as the first edition.