The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home

No book-club issue at this date. The live trap is the advertisement-leaf state: dealers routinely offer second-issue copies (three-line italic headline) as plain 'first edition' - correct as to edition, but the second issue, and Jarndyce catalogs such copies explicitly as 'FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue'. Copies lacking the terminal advertisement leaf altogether cannot be placed by this point. The book went through many editions within its first year (dealers cite twenty-two), and the 1886 'new edition' and later reprints are commonly confused with the 1846-dated first.