NMLP P-040100 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Elements of Style

William Strunk Jr. · Privately printed for the author, Ithaca, N.Y. (printed by the Press of W. F. Humphrey, Geneva, N.Y.) · 1918

The true first is the 1918 privately printed pamphlet, imprint "Ithaca, N.Y.: Privately printed," with the printer's line reading "Press of W. F. Humphrey, Geneva, N.Y." Note W. F., not the "W. P. Humphrey" carried for decades in Library of Congress and WorldCat records: the broken type was misread, and the Library of Congress corrected its record in September 2009

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-040100 for "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk Jr. (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040100, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).