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Perhaps the edition notice is confusing, but I think it is correct.
The actual novel was, I believe, first published in 1904.
This edition is taken from the Gutenberg edition and since that has no information as to its source, I have not made any claim either.
The Gutenberg edition, like so many other Gutenberg editions, has many upper case words (because it started out as a plain text file) which just look wrong to me, so I have 'improved' it by converting the capitalised words into italics, and also adding more italics and the odd diacritic from my Penguin paperback dating from 1966.
(And actually the Gutenberg edition does seem very close to the Penguin which says it was taken from the 1905 first English edition, but I haven't made any detailed comparison, and can't say for sure.)
You are quite right that the Author's Preface is from the 1909 edition, I took that from the Penguin which clearly attributes it.
Hope this makes the situation a little clearer.
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