NMLP P-035994 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-09
Eothen; or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
Alexander William Kinglake · John Ollivier (London) · 1844
Ollivier issued further anonymous editions under his own imprint after the first -- a third edition, still anonymous, is recorded dated 1845 -- before Murray eventually acquired the copyright, so neither Ollivier's imprint nor the absence of Kinglake's name on the title page is sufficient to identify the true first; only the 1844 title-page date together with the xii, [1], 418-page collation and its two hand-colored plates confirms the first edition.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-035994 for "Eothen; or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East" by Alexander William Kinglake (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035994, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).