The editions available for comparison were:
1804
Weekly installments in _The Political Barometer_, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
This version was only available in an online transcription.
A number of questioned words were checked with the transcriber, Hugh
MacDougall of the Cooper Society.
1811
Plattsburgh, N.Y. "Printed For The Proprietor."
The first of the pirated editions. Some copies have no author
credit.
1851
Boston. "Printed for the Publishers."
Attached to the end, without page break, is a short narrative poem
with prose introduction, "Henry and Julia, a tale of real life"
(omitted from this e-text).
1864
Philadelphia, Lippincott.
With two exceptions, this is a reprint of the 1851 edition,
including obvious typographical errors and with identical
punctuation. There is a new frontispiece (the 1851 edition had
none). The "Henry and Julia" poem is omitted. Instead, the final
page compresses the last two pages (one full page plus seven lines
of text and a four-line footnote) of the 1851 edition into one,
using a noticeably smaller font.
1870?
New York, Leavitt & Allen.
The date is hypothetical, based on librarian's notation. The book
is probably a reprint of the 1836 Boston edition, which has the same
page count (significantly different from other known editions); 1836
is also a plausible date for the frontispiece.
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