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NOTE ON THE TEXT

ISSUED in monthly numbers from 31 March 1836 to 30 October
1837 (one month omitted), bearing dates April-November. At first
with 24 pages of text and four plates, but from No. III on with 32
pages of text and two plates, concluding with 'double number'
XIX-XX, with 64 pages of text and 16 of prelims, with four plates.
Unusually, some revisions and corrections were made in the course
of reprinting early numbers, so that issues vary. In one volume (with
list of errata), 17 November 1837. Appeared in the Cheap edition
( 1847), the Library edition ( 1858) and the Charles Dickens edition
( 1867). The 1847 edition shows numerous authorial revisions,
mainly stylistic and expurgatory (see Clarendon edition, p. lxxix).
The text of 1858 is hardly touched, but there is some further revision
in 1867. All add fresh errors. Almost every modern edition follows
1867 and hence, in over 1,000 places, does not represent the original
text of 1836-7. The present text is that of the Clarendon edition of
1986, based on 1837 with errata slip, and taking account of those
fragments of manuscript which survive (mainly for chs. xxxvi-xxx-vii)
in the British Library, Dickens House, New York Public Library,
Rosenbach and Free Libraries in Philadelphia.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Pickwick Papers. Contributors: Charles Dickens - author, James Kinsley - editor. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of Publication: Oxford. Publication Year: 1988. Page Number: xvii.
    
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