The Blue Fairy Book

Longmans reprinted the title repeatedly into the twentieth century, retaining the same setting; later printings carry advertisement catalogues of later date rather than the August 1889 catalogue, and commonly abandon the all-gilt edges and the full pictorial gilt cloth. Principal trap is 'first thus': the many later illustrated reissues, and modern Dover and Folio Society reprints, are routinely offered as 'first editions' of a given format and are not the 1889 first.