NMLP P-036363 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

Erewhon

Samuel Butler · Trübner & Co. (London) · 1872

Demand sold out this first printing within about three weeks, and because Butler had not had stereotype plates made, the book was reset and issued again the same year with, in Butler's own words, "a few unimportant alterations and additions" and a new preface -- so a copy that includes a preface, even though still dated 1872, is this second setting rather than the true first

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-036363 for "Erewhon" by Samuel Butler (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036363, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).