No half-titles. Preface to Vol. I., dated August 3, 1860. Violet embossed cloth, blocked in gold and blind. Pale yellow end-papers.
Notes—(i) This book was published in September, 1860. The first one-volume edition (1861, magenta cloth blocked in gold and blind) contains a special preface.
(ii) I am uncertain whether or not the earliest copies of this novel contained in any one of the three volumes a publishers' catalogue. The first editions I have seen show a 16 pp. catalogue at the end of Vol. III., but dated November, 1860, so that they belong clearly to a subsequent issue. The Woman in White is a case over which the buyer should take great care. A so-called “New Edition” was issued in the year of publication and with binding identical to that of the first edition, for which reason only the right advertisement matter can show that a copy is untampered with. I should welcome information tending to establish whether a catalogue (and if so where and of what date) should properly figure in a “right” copy of the novel.
1862
NO NAME. By Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White, The Dead Secret, etc. etc. etc. London: Sampson Low, Son and Co., 47 Ludgate Hill. 1862. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¾).
Vol. I. pp. ix + (1) + 339 + (1).
Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 363 + (1).
Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 408.
Scarlet embossed cloth, blocked in gold and blind. Pale yellow end-papers.
Note—Although this book is dated 1862, it was not actually published until January, 1863.