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
Works"). Because R
12 required reimposition, it
presumably is a second
printing. Whether there was a second printing of all the other sheets is less
easy to form an opinion about, because copies with R
12
contain
mixtures of sheets with and without damage at three of the four points listed
above (e.g., the damage on p. 37 can be found in copies 1-9, 11, 13-17; on
p. 153 in 6-8, 11-13, 17; and on p. 290 in 1-3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13-17), and at
the fourth point (p. 275) all examined copies are without damage. There is
perhaps even a third printing of R, because R
12 has been
found to vary
at two points: some copies (e.g., 5) are without damage at 387.26,28 ('I'
/ 'my'), where most copies contain it; in some copies (e.g., 5) the price of
Wallis in line 13 of the first p.
1 in the advertisements is
87½&c.nt;, whereas in other copies (e.g., 1, 2, 11, 17) it is $1.00.
Without further evidence, however, only the reimposition that made
R
10 into R
12 is taken here to indicate a
new printing. But one should recognize that a copy with
R
12 is not
likely to contain second-printing sheets throughout.
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. . . .
