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Notes
This study is based upon the Methuen Stock Ledgers in the Lilly Library. I would like to express my appreciation to David A. Randall, Librarian, and William R. Cagle, Assistant Librarian, for permission to quote from those records and for their assistance with the preparation of this paper.
A. A. Milne, "Some Important Fall Authors Speak for Themselves," New York Herald Tribune Book Review, (October 12, 1952), 10.
Total number of copies printed by Methuen as of 3 July 1968:
Hardback | Paperback | |
When We Were Very Young | 967,000 | 450,000 |
Winnie-the-Pooh | 959,000 | 600,000 |
Now We Are Six | 649,000 | 450,000 |
The House at Pooh Corner | 764,000 | 500,000 |
Printing was completed as follows: 3 October, 3000 copies; 13 October, 1000 copies; 5 November, 1175 copies.
Edition — the whole number of copies of a book printed at any time or times from one setting-up of type (including copies printed from the stereotype or electrotype plates made from that setting-up of type). Impression — the whole number of copies printed at one time.
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