NMLP P-034412 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-09

The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James · Macmillan and Co. (London, 3 vols.) / Houghton, Mifflin and Company (Boston, 1 vol.) · 1881

The Macmillan London three-volume edition of November 1881 is the true first edition, preceding the Houghton, Mifflin one-volume Boston edition, which itself is dated 1882 on its title page despite appearing in November 1881.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-034412 for "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-034412, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).