NMLP P-034554 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

The Water-Witch, or The Skimmer of the Seas

James Fenimore Cooper · Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley (London); Carey & Lea (Philadelphia) · 1830

Cooper, then living in Dresden, arranged for a small edition to be printed there in English by C. C. Meinhold & Sons for the bookseller Walther, issued shortly before September 18, 1830; this Continental printing preceded Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley's three-volume London edition of October 14, 1830, and the Philadelphia edition from Carey & Lea, released December 11, 1830 though dated 1831 on its title page

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-034554 for "The Water-Witch, or The Skimmer of the Seas" by James Fenimore Cooper (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-034554, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).