A Shropshire Lad

Housman paid for the printing himself; the first printing consisted of only 500 sets of sheets, of which about 250 were bound up first for the British issue under the Kegan Paul imprint dated 1896, a further 100 were bound later for the British market under the same imprint and date, and the remaining 150 sheets were given a cancel title leaf bearing John Lane's New York imprint dated 1897 for the American issue