Ⓐ  The Prince and the Pauper . . . AGES] Mark Twain took pains with the title and subtitle of his book. The manuscript includes a title page (written in ink 3 on white wove paper) which originally read “The Little Prince | and the | Little Pauper. | A Tale of the Sixteenth Century. | By Mark Twain. | (Samuel L. Clemens.) | All rights reserved. | 1880.” He revised the title, canceling both instances of “Little,” changed the subtitle to read “A Tale for Young Folks of all ages,” and changed the date from “1880” to “1881.” Later, on a sheet of Osgood company stationery, he wrote another title page (Yale) which reads “The Prince & the Pauper. | A Tale for Young People of all Ages. | Scene laid in the Sixteenth Century. | By Mark Twain. | Boston: | J.R. Osgood & Co. | London: | Chatto & Windus. | 1881.” He evidently revised again, for in the first American edition “Scene laid in the Sixteenth Century” does not appear, although the title page there does show the change from “Folks” to “People” in the subtitle and drops “(Samuel L. Clemens.)” Except for differences of typographic style, this edition adopts the title and subtitle of the first American edition.

Mark Twain's manuscript also includes a copyright page (written in ink 3 on white wove paper) on which he wrote “Copyright by S. L. Clemens, 1880.” His publisher, Osgood, made changes on both the original title page and the copyright page. On the title page, he canceled “All rights reserved” wrote “Boston | James R. Osgood & Company” above the cancellation; on the copyright page, he altered Mark Twain's date from “1880” to “1881” and added “All rights reserved.”