Note 9 to Chapter 3 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.
A detailed analysis of the ledgers as clues to production is given for Vanity Fair and Esmond in chapter 5 below.
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