Notes: 1st ed. • No statement of printing on copyright page • First printing has 32-page publisher's catalogue inserted at rear dated SEPTEMBER 1895. [Currey] HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) provides full view of one copy from Harvard University, catalogued as "London : Methuen, 1895", which may be re-bound (plain maroon cloth): -- bookplate: acquired with money from the sale of duplicates -- title page missing -- unprinted page (back of half-title or title) shows library stamp date 1919-05-03 Images of the half-title page, dedication, untitled note on previous publications (closing "H. G. Wells", no date), and Contents list precede the paginated span, the stories p[1]-275. The last image of a printed page shows printer statement only, evidently p[276]. No publisher catalogue, nor other back matter. That HDL e-copy of a 275-page ed./printing is the source for story titles and page numbers below. In the Contents list only, the penultimate story title is fashioned thus:   A Moth—Genus Novo