Note 14 to Chapter 2 of the author's Pegasus in Harness: Victorian Publishing and W. M. Thackeray, which University Press of Virginia published in 1992. It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
The earlier Flore et Zéphyr (1836) has captions, but is otherwise devoid of text, and the ostensible but never confirmed publication of Major Gahagan by an unidentified American publisher occupies if anything the same position as the pirated Yellowplush.
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