Title page: THE | SECRET AGENT | A SIMPLE TALE | BY | JOSEPH CONRAD | METHUEN & CO. | 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. | LONDON ||
Imprint on t.p. verso: First Published in 1907
Dedication: To H. G. Wells.
Pagination: [2] – blank, [6] – h.t., t.p., dedication; 1-442, [2] colophon: THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH / blank; [1-2] 3-40 – Catalogue of books published by Methuen and company, September 1907; total 492 pages.
Collation: 8vo; π4, A-Z8 2A-2D8, 2E6, + 20 leaves of advertisement: signed A2 on leaf 5 and A3 on leaf 9, other unsigned, 2E2 signed; total 246 leaves.
Binding: Publisher’s burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and elements to spine, lower margin untrimmed, 19.5 x 13.5 cm.
Edition: 1st edition, 1st printing (“be be” on the last line of page 117) of 2,500 copied printed.
Contributors:
Conrad, Joseph (Polish-British, 1857 – 1924) – author.
Methuen & Co. (London) – publisher.
The Riverside Press Limited (Edinburgh) – printer.
Herbert George Wells (British, 1866 – 1946) – dedicatee.
