2 Frederick Marryat first editions are documented on this shelf, from Peter Simple (1834) to Mr. Midshipman Easy (1836). Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Frederick Marryat 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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Peter Simple — 1834 · Saunders and OtleyFirst book edition, three volumes ('triple-decker' format), published by Saunders and Otley of Conduit Street, following prior serialization in monthly installments in the Metropolitan Magazine from June 1832 to September 1833 while Marryat edited that periodical. The edition is catalogued as Sadleir 1592a, described as the 'first English edition,' in Michael Sadleir's XIX Century Fiction. Genuine first-edition…. The Metropolitan Magazine serial installments (1832-33) preceded the 1834 three-volume book issue, but it is the 1834 Saunders and Otley book edition that constitutes the collectible first edition in book form.
Mr. Midshipman Easy — 1836 · Saunders and OtleyFirst edition, three volumes, published by Saunders and Otley in 1836 (referenced as D'Hannay p. iii, NCBEL III 705, Sadleir 1585, Wolff 4524), with pagination vii,[1],291,[1]; vii,[1],306; viii,314. Early first-issue copies are noted as lacking half-titles. A Philadelphia edition from E. L. Carey and A. Hart appeared the same year but is subordinate in collecting terms to the London first. The London Saunders and Otley first edition (1836) has priority; the Philadelphia (Carey and Hart) edition, issued the same year, is catalogued by dealers citing 'Sadleir 1585 (the printed pricet Eng. ed.)' as their own point of reference -- i.e. treated as a secondary printing, not a competing first.

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