Trilby

Harper & Brothers dated its New York edition 8 September 1894; Osgood, McIlvaine's three-volume London edition, the first English edition, also appeared that year, and dealers generally treat the two as separate national first editions rather than assigning firm day-by-day priority between them. Both book editions already carry revised text: the Harper's Magazine serial (January-August 1894) had caricatured the painter Whistler as 'Joe Sibley,' with an accompanying drawing, and after Whistler's protest (published 16 June 1894) and Harper's written apology (31 August 1894) the character was renamed 'Antony' and given a non-Whistlerian beard before either book edition was printed.