Note 55 to Chapter 5 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 only way to distinguish the two states of the second impression without a collating machine is to measure the length of the lines. Both states measure 9.55 cm horizontally at page 100.1. The first state measures 9.55 cm at lines 4, 7, and 8; the second state measures 9.7 cm at these lines.
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