Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
The for-sale edition at Amazon to which I alluded is the one here. I didn't think to search for another edition and/or cheaper edition. I typically do not check Gutenberg at all. So, thanks for the additional information. Unfortunately, I found no information on the book's webpage giving its edition, and there wasn't a preview option for this book so as to check the title page for that information.
I think that peeps will be disappointed in the quality of the free Amazon edition, other than the text itself which is not a facsimile like the one that I posted. Frankly, it's kind of cheesy. For example, there is an illustration just a few pages into the book, of a young woman in high heels wearing something like a waitress wears in a Playboy Club (no, I haven't been in one) but in a maid's uniform motif instead of a bunny motif! There are illustrations of various kinds, but the ones that I saw (also) are anachronistic--i.e., they don't fit the time period in which the book is written.
I don't know what edition that the free one is. There is nothing that I see that says. That's annoying. I searched for the most recent edition, assuming that it would be the best one. I've seen a few books that went through two or more editions, however, in which the older one was superior. |