In an earlier post, I announced my attempts to reconstruct the publication history of Fowler’s Modern English Usage. This weekend, I was able to lay my hands on another copy of Fowler (my 8th!) at the same second-hand shop, and equally cheaply. It is a 1975 reprint of the second edition, revised by Ernest Gowers (1965).

I can now add a great deal more to my original overview:

• first edition April 1926
  • reprinted June 1926
  • reprinted August 1926
  • reprinted October 1926
• reprinted
  • 1930 (with corrections)
  • 1933
  • 1934
  • 1937 (with corrections)
• second edition 1965
  • reprinted with corrections 1965 (twice)
  • 1966
  • 1968 (with corrections)
  • 1970
  • 1972
  • 1974 (with corrections)
  • 1975
  • first issued as OUP paperback 1983
• third edition 1996
  • revised 1998
  • reissued with title change 2004.

There will be more to follow (and of course additional information will be very welcome).