Thackeray's A Shabby Genteel Story in America

Peter L. Shillingsburg, Professor of English, Mississippi State University

Note 18 to Chapter 4 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.

James Grant Wilson claimed Appleton sold 83,750 cpoies, which must be an aggregate figure for the whole series. He did not give a source (Wilson, 1: 59).

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