THE BARTON EXPERIMENT. By the Author of "Helen's Babies." London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Crown Buildings, 188, Fleet Street, 1877. Small octavo, pp. [1-5] 6 [7] 8-126 [127-128: ads], publisher's gray wrappers printed in brown. Perhaps the first British edition. This edition was claimed by Low to be the only edition published in England with the sanction of the author and in which he participated financially. There were other 1877 editions, probably piracies, published by George Routledge & Sons and Ward Lock & Tyler. Topp, Victorian Yellowbacks, 1849-1905 IV, p. 323. Wrappers lightly worn at edges, 25 mm chip from lower spine end, a very good copy (#171024).
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