Copies of Esmond, First Edition

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

Note 58 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.

Edgar Harden conjectured in the absence of evidence for the £100 payment that Smith printed only 2,500 copies (Harden, Esmond, p. 92).

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