Little Dorrit

The census is right that the parts precede the book but mis-states the true-first year as 1857: the true first edition is the parts issue of December 1855 - June 1857, not the 1857 volume. Correct the count too - 'twenty monthly parts' is imprecise; it is 20 numbers issued in 19 monthly parts, the last being a double number (19/20). Both states are collected: (1) the 19/20 parts in original blue wrappers, and (2) the first one-volume edition, Bradbury and Evans, 1857, made up largely from the parts sheets and carrying the same textual points ('Rigaud' at pp. 469/470/472/473, 'William' for 'Frederick' at p. 317). No competing UK or American edition holds precedence over the London parts.