Copies of Esmond Bought by Mudie's

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

Note 59 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.

John Sutherland claimed Mudie's Circulating Library purchased 430 copies (Sutherland, Novelists, p. 113); he cited no source.

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