This translation of The Ego and Its Own was made by the American anarchist intellectual Steven Tracy Byington (1868–1958). A graduate of the University of Vermont and of the Union and Oberlin Theological Colleges, Byington worked as a teacher, Congregationalist pastor, editor, and translator (apparently fluent in ten languages). His translation of Stirner's work was first published in 1907 and represents an heroic attempt to convey the readable yet idiosyncratic prose of Stirner's original German text. I have, however, made a number of amendments, such as removing infelicities and archaisms, replacing the occasional missing sentence, and restoring some of the original paragraph and section breaks. For the sake of clarity, for example where the sense of a term of art or a word play might be obscured by the translation, the occasional German word or phrase has been included in parenthesis. Stirner's own footnotes appear alphabetically at the bottom of the page, although his sparse and abbreviated notes have been expanded into complete references. I have also added endnotes, listed numerically at the end of Stirner's text, most of which give biographical details of persons mentioned in the text. In both sets of notes, if a written work is available in translation the English title is given, although other publication details are left intact; if a work is not available in translation its title is left in the original language.