NMLP P-040101 · 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

It collates 43 pages in wrappers and is textually shorter than everything that follows: no Spelling chapter, no Exercises, and the Syllabication rule sits under "The Elementary Rules of Usage" rather than under "A Few Matters of Form." A second privately printed edition followed in 1919 from the same printer and the same imprint; the Catalogue of Copyright Entries records both years, and ABAA dealers describe the 1919 as the second of the two private printings

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-040101 for "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk Jr. (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040101, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).