NMLP P-035993 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

Eothen; or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East

Alexander William Kinglake · John Ollivier (London) · 1844

Major houses including John Murray had already declined the manuscript, and Ollivier, a personal friend of Kinglake's, published it only after Kinglake agreed to cover the financial risk; the book proved so popular that it reached a third edition, still anonymous and still from Ollivier, within about a year

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035993 for "Eothen; or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East" by Alexander William Kinglake (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035993, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).