The date of first publication of "The Way of a Man with a Maid" is not printed in any of the early editions of this book. However, a note by a collector indicates that the first edition was published in Liverpool by H. W. Pickle & Co. in 1908. Previous suggestions that it was first published in 1895 or 1896 seem to be based on the erroneous back-dating – to 1896 – of a translation, by "the author of "The Way of a Man with a Maid"", of an erotic work called "Parisian Frolics", which further research indicates was actually published c. 1912.