@article{ref1,
title="Dating the publication of Hugh Miller's the testimony of the rocks (1857)",
journal="Archives of Natural History",
year="2021",
author="Taylor, M.A. and O'connor, R. and Overstreet, L.K.",
volume="48",
number="2",
pages="310-324",
abstract="Assessing the precise publication dates of nineteenth-century books is difficult. Common problems include inadequate, inaccurate and confusing title-page information, and misleading advertisements. It is better to use multiple lines of evidence rather than a single source. The first Scottish and English edition of The testimony of the rocks, by Hugh Miller (1802-1856), is shown to have been published on or about 24 March 1857, after the author's suicide, as a combination of the first and second issues simultaneously. The first issue was published by Shepherd & Elliot of Edinburgh in co-operation with Hamilton, Adams & Co. of London. It was optionally available with an additional frontispiece of a photographic print of Miller. The second issue was published by Thomas Constable & Co. of Edinburgh with Shepherd & Elliot and Hamilton, Adams. After some further issues, Shepherd & Elliot was dropped later in 1857, so that the third publishers' imprint became Constable with Hamilton, Adams, for a number of issues. Constable and Hamilton, Adams published a newly-typeset second Edinburgh edition in 1860, but failed to denote it as such. Gould & Lincoln of Boston, Massachusetts, published the first American edition (from a new typesetting) and distributed it on or about 25 April 1857. © The Society for the History of Natural History.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0260-9541",
doi="10.3366/ANH.2021.0724",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ANH.2021.0724"
}