The Yemassee: A Romance of Carolina

First edition, published in April 1835 (a preface is dated April 3, 1835) by Harper & Brothers, New York, in two volumes, in an unusually large first printing of twenty-five hundred copies -- by Simms's own account in his preface to the second edition, twice the number usually printed in America for comparable European works -- which bibliographers attribute to Harper's confidence after the strong reception of Simms's Guy Rivers the year before