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A Rationale of Literary Annotation: The Example of Fielding's Novels by Martin C. Battestin
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Recent Editorial Discussion and the Central Questions of Editing by G. Thomas Tanselle
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A Fifteenth-Century Copyist at Work Under Authorial Scrutiny: An Incident from John Capgrave's Scriptorium by Peter J. Lucas
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The Shrinking Compositor A of the Shakespeare First Folio by Gary Taylor
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The Printing, Proof-reading, and Publishing of Thackeray's Vanity Fair: The First Edition by Peter L. Shillingsburg
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Chart I—Vanity Fair Printing Schedule
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Chart II—Vanity Fair Schedule of Disbursement
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Chart III—Variants Within the First Edition of Vanity Fair
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Chart IV—Six Title-pages for Vanity Fair
  
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The Publication of Tennyson's "Lucretius" by Edgar F. Shannon, Jr.
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Verdict on GW 2182 and 2183 by Dennis E. Rhodes
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Establishing Shakespeare's Text: Poins and Peto in 1 Henry IV by Fredson Bowers
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Astrological Analysis as an Editorial Tool: The Case of Fletcher's The Bloody Brother by J. C. Eade
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John Nourse and His Authors by John Feather
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The Library of George Tollet, Neglected Shakespearean by Arthur Sherbo
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William Cowper and the European Magazine by Arthur Sherbo
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William Blake's Techniques of Engraving and Printing by G. E. Bentley, Jr.
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Signatures and Dashes in Novels Printed by T. C. Newby in the Eighteen-Forties by G. D. Hargreaves
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A George Eliot Notebook by Valerie A. Dodd
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Tennyson's The New Timon, R. H. Shepherd, and Harry Buxton Forman by the late W. D. Paden
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Additional Manuscripts of Faulkner's "A Dead Dancer" by Louis Daniel Brodsky

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Chart I—Vanity Fair Printing Schedule

Basically there were six printings of Vanity Fair: The original printing, 1 January 1847 through 1 July 1848; a second comprehensive printing in July, 1848; a third in September, 1848; a fourth in February, 1849; the fifth was scattered out over the years 1854 to 1857; and the sixth was scattered through 1861 to 1864. In addition numbers 1, 3, and 7-13 were printed an extra time in 1847-48, and numbers 2-4, 7, and 19-20 were printed an extra time in 1864-65. Thus, numbers 3 and 7 were printed eight times; numbers 1, 2, 4, 8-13 and 19-20 were printed seven times; the rest only six.

                                           
Part  1st Printing  2nd Printing  3rd Printing  4th Printing  5th Printing  6th Printing  7th Printing  8th Printing 
#  Mon/Yr: Size  Mon/Yr: Size  Mon/Yr: Size  Mon/Yr: Size  Mon/Yr: Size  Mon/Yr: Size  Mon/Yr: Size  Mon/Yr: Size 
1  12/46: 5000  Same: 2000  7/48: 1250  9/48: 1500  2/49: 2000  11/54: 500  5/61: 500  None 
2  1/47: 6000  7/48: 1000  9/48: 1500  2/49: 2000  2/55: 500  12/63: 250  6/65: 250  None 
3  2/47: 5000  6/48: 500  7/48: 1000  9/48: 1500  2/49: 2000  2/55: 500  12/63: 250  6/64: 250 
4  3/47: 5000  7/48: 1250  9/48: 1500  2/49: 2000  2/55: 500  12/63: 250  6/64: 250  None 
5  4/47: 5000  7/48: 1250  9/48: 1500  2/49: 2000  9/56: 500  2/64: 250  None  None 
6  5/47: 5000  7/48: 1000  9/48: 1500  2/49: 2000  11/54: 500  5/61: 500  None  None 
7  6/47: 4000  1/48: 1000  7/48: 1000  9/48: 1500  2/49: 2000  2/55: 500  12/63: 250  6/65: 250 
8  7/47: 4000  1/48: 1000  7/48: 1000  9/48: 1500  2/49: 2000  2/56: 500  1/64: 500  None 
9  8/47: 4000  2/48: 1000  7/48: 1000  9/48: 1500  2/49: 2000  2/57: 500  4/64: 500  None 
10  9/47: 4000  2/48: 1000  7/48: 1000  9/48: 1500  2/49: 2000  2/57: 500  4/64: 500  None 
11  10/47: 4000  3/48: 1000  7/48: 1000  9/48: 1500  2/49: 2000  2/57: 500  4/64: 500  None 
12  11/47: 4500  3/48: 500  7/48: 1000  9/48: 1500  2/49: 2000  2/57: 500  4/64: 500  None 
13  12/47: 4500  3/48: 500  7/48: 1000  9/48: 1500  2/49: 2000  2/57: 500  4/64: 500  None 
14  1/48: 5000  7/48: 1000  9/48: 1500  2/49: 2000  2/57: 500  4/64: 500  None  None 
15  2/48: 5000  7/48: 1000  9/48: 1500  2/49: 2000  2/57: 500  4/64: 500  None  None 
16  3/48: 5000  7/48: 1000  9/48: 1500  2/49: 2000  8/56: 500  2/64: 250  None  None 
17  4/48: 5000  7/48: 1000  9/48: 1500  2/49: 2000  8/56: 500  2/64: 250  None  None 
18  5/48: 5000  7/48: 1000  9/48: 1500  2/49: 2000  8/56: 500  2/64: 250  None  None 
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20  6/48: 5000  7/48: 1000  9/48: 1500  2/49: 2000  2/55: 500  1/64: 500  4/64: 500  None 

TOTALS per number: 1 = 12750; 2 = 11500; 3 = 11000; 4 = 10750; 5 through 18 = 10500 each; 19/20 = 11000

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