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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 737667, member: 33&quot;]I&#039;ve found four different titles under which this book was issued through the years. Four by Dodd, Mead. There could have been more. One of these titles was the one under which it was copyrighted by Dodd, Mead.</p><p><br /></p><p>I go along with McAdder&#039;s thoughts on this, in general. The link provided above is for the Biodiversity Library copy of the title page with the variant title just <i>Natural History</i>. I&#039;ve not been able to find a history of the variant titles under which it was published. Wikipedia has a biography of Alfred Henry Miles that includes an image of a cover (not title page) of a variant title, <i>Universal Natural History. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Henry_Miles" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Henry_Miles" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Henry_Miles</a> (Edited to include the link.) </i>Alfred Henry Miles was British, and there were British editions of the title also. I haven&#039;t researched this in depth but it appears that Dodd, Mead&#039;s American editions were published first. I believe it will be a very long project to try to verify the exact date of your edition, and probably not worth it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The HathiTrust site has several cataloged versions of this in variant titles available in full text. All just say Copyright 1895. However, there is one digitized there with the copyrighted title <i>Natural History in Anecdote</i> that happens to have a personal inscription in it dated December 1896:</p><p><a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hw2pt1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hw2pt1" rel="nofollow">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hw2pt1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The inscription is on the very first page that was digitized. This is one reason that I think that the title under which it was copyrighted was published first and they changed the title later. The cover of that title was not digitized in HathiTrust.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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