4 Benjamin Disraeli first editions are documented on this shelf, from Vivian Grey (1826) to Tancred; or, The New Crusade (1847). Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Benjamin Disraeli title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.
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- Vivian Grey — 1826 · Henry ColburnFirst edition (Sadleir 734), published anonymously in five volumes across two parts: Part I (volumes 1-2, four books) appeared 22 April 1826, and Part II (volumes 3-5, four further books) followed on 23 February 1827. Original issue was octavo in paper boards with a printed paper spine label; half-titles are present in volumes 2 and 5 as issued, with terminal advertisement leaves in volumes 1 through 4. Published…. Because Part I proved an immediate sensation and was reprinted within its first year, genuine first-edition sets require volumes 1-2 in the true first printing (Sadleir 734); Sadleir separately records a second printing of the early volumes (735) bearing 'New Edition' on the title pages and 'Second Edition' on the spine labels, and sets mixing these reprinted volumes 1-2 with first-edition volumes 3-5 are…. Disraeli substantially revised the novel for a new edition published in 1853 (prepared with his sister Sarah's help), softening the satirical treatment of real figures such as publisher John Murray -- the model for the Marquess of Carabas -- and other material he came to regard as the excesses of his youth; most modern reprints derive from this revised 1853 text rather than the original 1826-27 first edition.
- Coningsby; or, The New Generation — 1844 · Henry ColburnFirst edition, three volumes octavo, pp. iv,319; [ii],314; [ii],350, published by Henry Colburn in 1844. Original publisher's binding is grayish-brown boards with a ribbed cloth spine and a printed paper spine label. Advertisements appear in volume III at pages [351]-354, and a separately published pamphlet, 'Key to the Characters in Coningsby' (London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1844), was inserted between…. Later single-volume reprints, such as David Bryce's 1853 'New Edition' (346 pp.) and Longmans' undated Modern Novelist's Library reprint of the 1880s, collapse the text into one volume with continuous pagination and illustrated boards, readily distinguished from the three-volume first edition.
- Sybil; or, The Two Nations — 1845 · Henry ColburnFirst edition (Sadleir 726), three volumes octavo, pp. viii,315; [4],324; [2],326, published by Henry Colburn in 1845. Half-titles are called for in volumes one and two; complete sets also carry a publisher's catalogue at the end of volume one and a further advertisement leaf in volume three, both frequently lacking and described by dealers as 'vanishingly scarce' when present. Original binding is quarter-cloth:…. Later single-volume reprints, such as David Bryce's 1853 'New Edition' (336 pp.) and Longmans' undated Modern Novelist's Library reprint of the 1880s, collapse the text into one volume, readily distinguished from the three-volume first edition.
- Tancred; or, The New Crusade — 1847 · Henry ColburnFirst edition (Sadleir 728a; Wolff 1842), three volumes 12mo, pp. [2],338; [2],340; [2],298,[12] (the final leaves being Colburn advertisements), published by Henry Colburn in 1847. Original binding is boards (recorded as grayish yellowish-brown, elsewhere as plain paper-covered) with a printed paper spine label; Sadleir also records a half-cloth binding variant. Sadleir notes the first edition was evidently…. Later single-volume reprints, such as David Bryce's 1853 'New Edition' (342 pp.) and Longmans' undated Modern Novelist's Library reprint of the 1880s, collapse the text into one volume, readily distinguished from the three-volume first edition.
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