Book Block Plate Varieties (Regular Editions)

On occasion Modern Library found it necessary to replace worn out plates from which book blocks were printed. In the process the page count would sometimes change—even radically—even though no (or minimal) content changes occurred. The following table lists these varieties.

Note that the real essential difference in these printings was the page count and not the content.

If you know of other titles with new plate printings that resulted in a modified page count without other change to content, please let us know.

Thanks to Bill Hornick for all his research and hard work on this project. Additional contributions from Vincent Civiletti.

Tole #	Author	Title	Original Plates	Page Count	*Second Plates*	Page Count	*Third Plates*	Page Count
13.1	Butler	The Way of All Flesh	1917-1940	410	1940-1950	562
275.1	Conrad	Nostromo	1951-1967	631	1967-1969	566
227.1	Du Maurier	Rebecca	1943-1950(?)	457	1951(?)-1970 ¶	357
28.1	Flaubert	Madame Bovary	1917-1926	273	1927-1950	400
327.1	Gide	The Counterfeiters/Journal	1962-1969	431	1969-1975	467
17.1	Hardy	The Mayor of Casterbridge	1917-1947	318	1947-1950	432
244.1	James, H.	Wings of the Dove	1946-1967	768	1968-1970	522
109.1	Lawrence	Sons And Lovers	1922-1928 †	517†	1928-1932 †	517†	1933-1961	491
56.2	Longfellow	Poems	1932-1940(?)	678	1945(?)-1975	732
27.2	Maugham	The Moon And Sixpence	1935-1945	314	1946-1969	341
176.1	Maugham	Of Human Bondage	1930-1945	766	1946-1967	760	1967-1975	684
14.1	Meredith	Diana Of The Crossways	1917-1930	365	1931-1975	447
154.1	Rostand	Cyrano De Bergerac	1929-1953	322	1953-1968 (?)	300
97.2	Whitman	Leaves of Grass	1929-1944	311	1945-1950	410
142.1	Zola	Nana	1928-1944	517	1945-1963	545
¶ Author note dropped † We don't know the difference between these two printings. If you know the difference, please let us know.