Parts I. to III. were undated; Part IV. was dated April 1; and each succeeding part was dated similarly with the month of its appearance.
Part I. should contain at front or back publishers' catalogue, 8 pp., dated January 1, 1840, and entitled “Poor Jack's Advertising Sheet.” Also at back an illustrated advertisement of Paul Periwinkle.
Part II. should contain at front publishers' 4 pp. list, dated February, 1840, and a prospectus (8 pp., enclosed in buff wrappers) of McCulloch's Geographical, Statistical and Historical Dictionary.
Parts III. to XI. contained (so far as I can discover) no advertising matter apart from that printed on the wrappers themselves.
Part XII. should contain 2 pp. publishers' advertisements both at front and back, printed on the buff wrapper paper.
Notes on the Plates.
(i) No plates were issued with Part IX., but six instead of three with Part X. A slip should be found inserted in Part IX. calling attention to the arrangement. My own set shows a similar happening in the case of Parts VII. and VIII., but there is no sign of a slip having figured in the former to explain the absence of illustration.
(ii) In two cases there are variations in underline between part and book issue: (a) One of the plates included in Part XI. is entitled “The Euphrosyne in the Downs,” but this legend is omitted altogether in some copies of the book. (b) Included in Part XII. is a plate entitled “The Prize at Sheerness.” This underline reads in most copies of the book “The Prize in The Medway.” Collectors anxious to possess the actual first issue of the book—i.e., that bound up from actual parts—should examine these two points in copies they consider purchasing.
1840
OLLA PODRIDA. By the author of Peter Simple etc. etc. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, Paternoster Row. 1840. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾).