Dombey and Son

Bradbury and Evans, London is right, but the census's arithmetic needs correcting. The serial precedes the book and is the true first appearance: twenty numbers issued in nineteen monthly parts, October 1846 to April 1848 — the final instalment of April 1848 is the double number XIX/XX — in the original printed pictorial wrappers with the Dombey & Son Advertiser. Hatton and Cleaver is the authority for the advertisements and inserted slips a complete set must carry. Points recorded in the parts include the twelve-line errata slip in Part V, the 'delight' for 'joy' reading at p. 284 in Part IX, 'Capatin' at p. 324 in Part XI, the earliest advertiser state dated 'October, 1847' in Part XIII, 'if' omitted at p. 426 in Part XIV, and in Part XIX/XX the Captain Cuttle hook error on the vignette title together with the two-line errata. The 1848 book issue is made from the same sheets and is the collected form; a volume 'bound from the parts' — stab holes visible in the gutter margins — is a third thing again and should be described as such rather than as either. No UK/US or foreign-language precedence question arises; the American editions follow the London parts.