"To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which first appeared in September, 1897, this edition of 1,000 copies, numbered and signed by the author has been printed and made" (dust jacket front flap).
Note that this copy doesn't have square bracket enclosing "All rights reserved" and thus isn't the first issue that Stott talks about. He does mention that there are copies, like this one, with this variant, but can't be certain when they come into…
