A Tale of a Tub
The first, second, and third editions of the "Tale" appeared in 1704; the fifth edition came out in 1710. In "The Apology for the &c.", Swift indicates that he originally gave his publisher a preliminary copy of the work, while he kept a blotted copy at his own hand and lent other copies including one to Thomas Swift, Jonathan's "parson cousin". As a consequence, the first edition appeared with many errors. The second edition was a resetting of the type. The third edition was a reprint of the second, with corrections, and the fourth edition contained corrections of the third.
Armistead Maupin
"Tales of the City" is a series of novels, the first portions of which were published initially as a newspaper serial starting on August 8, 1974, in a Marin County newspaper, "The Pacific Sun", picked up in 1976 by the "San Francisco Chronicle", and later reworked into the series of books published by HarperCollins (then Harper and Row). The first of Maupin's novels, entitled "Tales of the City", was published in 1978. Five more followed in the 1980s, ending with the last book, "Sure of You", in 1989. A seventh novel published in 2007, "Michael Tolliver Lives", continues the story of some of the characters. It was followed by an eighth volume, "Mary Ann in Autumn", published in 2010 and a ninth and final volume, "The Days of Anna Madrigal", in 2014. In "Babycakes", published in 1983, Maupin was one of the first writers to address the subject of AIDS. Of the autobiographical nature of the characters, he says "I've always been all of the characters in one way or another."