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D2.2. Second Harper Printing (New York, 1849)
Later Harper printings. The entries for D2.2 through D2.6 show how descriptions of later printings can build on the full description of the first printing and on each other, variously using prose paragraphs or more formulaic statements as the occasion warrants. In D2.2 a discussion of the problematical status of the second printing must come first, and since it explains the difference in collation and contents and draws on the typographical evidence, no separate paragraphs on those matters are called for. Bindings, however, are a separable matter and are best described here in a conventional binding paragraph. In the succeeding entries, D2.3 through D2.6, typographical variations play no role in identifying printings, and they are not taken up in the opening statements, which in these cases only need to be concerned with questions of title-page wording and dates, collation, and contents; typography as well as binding therefore has its own paragraph in these entries. And all entries must have a record of copies examined. The entries for these later printings, by drawing on prior entries, can be relatively concise, and yet the later printings are described no less fully than the first printing. (On the question of when to give less full descriptions, see the comments below on D4a.)
The title page is unchanged, but gathering R consists of twelve integral leaves (the four additional pages of advertisements being numbered 11 14 1 2—the last two are the beginning of a list of "Standard Illustrated
bindings. Both cloth casing and paper wrappers.
Casing. Three casings have been seen on copies with R12. (A) The same as casing A described above for copies with R10 (as on copies 1-8, 14, 17; the color on copy 10 appears as dark bluish green [165]). (B) . . . (C) . . .
Wrappers. . . .
copies examined. . . .
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