"An early unrecorded American printing of Treasure Island," offered by Scribner's, July 12, 1940 (see letter quoting it in file).

This item is not a publication, it is a sample, or advertisement of the stereotyped plates that can be supplied by the Chicago Stereotype Works. On the front cover is a list of stories and serials that can be supplied in plates to periodicals. Some of the titles checked at the New York Public Library were found to have been originally published by their authors in the following years:--

MONICA By M. Argles 1884
Eyre's Acquittal By H. B. Malthus 1884
A Family Affair By Fargus 1885
The Evil Genuis By Wilkie Collins 1886
The Octoroon By M. E. Maxwell (Braddon) 1888
Love or Money By Mrs. K.L.Jenner 1892
Madcap By Geo. Gibbs Appleton 1913

It goes without saying that these stories were not in plates for serialization, etc., until their first sales in book form and legitimate magazine appearance was well over.

In checking Madcap, by Appleton, it is possible that another and earlier story by the same name and different author appeared; but so far, it has not been found. These stories, of course, must have had popularity and a large public, to pay in plates.