DICKENS, Charles.

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Great Expectations. The fourth impression, published two months after the first. The novel's instant popularity meant that five impressions were published in quick succession; copies of any impression in the original cloth are desirable.These first five impressions were printed sequentially in short order. To imply and encourage rapid sales, Dickens's publishers advertised each fresh impression as a new edition. The present fourth impression, stated on the title pages as the "fourth edition", had the smallest print run (500 copies) and was published in September 1861, following the first in July. The second edition followed in 1862, when Chapman and Hall reset the text for their "library edition".

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