Creator
Mark Twain
Title
Autobiography, (Burlesque.) First Romance, and Memoranda
Coverage
Toronto
Publisher
James Campbell & Son
Date
[1871?]
Description
This unauthorized collection of Twain sketches features on its cover Twain’s caricature of William III of Prussia. Following the publication of this volume, Twain took action to better protect his copyright in England and Canada, leading to a five-year lull in Canadian piracy of his work before the Canadian Copyright Act of 1875, which separated Canada from imperial copyright agreements and enabled a second major phase of unauthorized editions. The eponymous “autobiography” is an entirely fictional account that originally appeared in his “Memoranda” for the Galaxy.