2 Thomas Love Peacock first editions are documented on this shelf, from Nightmare Abbey (1818) to Crotchet Castle (1831) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Thomas Love Peacock 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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Nightmare Abbey — 1818 · T. Hookham, Jun., and Baldwin, Cradock, and JoyFirst edition, published in November 1818 by T. Hookham, Jun., and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy of London, issued as a single-volume satirical novella. The title page reads 'Nightmare Abbey: By the Author of Headlong Hall,' with no personal author's name and no statement of edition or printing anywhere in genuine first-edition copies. Peacock published all his early novels this way, crediting them only by…. Peacock lightly revised the text in 1837 for its republication (together with Headlong Hall, Maid Marian, and Crotchet Castle) as volume 57 of Bentley's Standard Novels; the 1837 changes are minor and do not affect the first-edition points above.
Crotchet Castle — 1831 · T. HookhamFirst edition (Sadleir 1957), published by T. Hookham of Old Bond Street in 1831, pp. [i-viii], [1] 2-300, complete with a leaf advertising other works by Peacock bound in ahead of the title leaf. A recorded typographical point is that page 154 is misnumbered as '54.' The true first edition was issued in the publisher's blue-grey drab paper-covered boards with a printed paper label on the spine and all edges…. Peacock lightly revised the text in 1837 for its republication (together with Headlong Hall, Nightmare Abbey, and Maid Marian) as volume 57 of Bentley's Standard Novels; the 1837 changes are minor and do not affect the first-edition points above.

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