Doctor Thorne

First edition, three volumes, with a 32-page publisher's catalogue dated April 1858 bound into volume I. Chapman and Hall printed only 750 copies of the first edition -- fewer than they had printed of either Barchester Towers or The Three Clerks -- making genuine first-edition sets scarcer than those companion titles; a second edition of 250 copies followed within three weeks in the same binding, so the dated April 1858 catalogue in volume I is the most reliable check against that near-identical second edition