The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

Dealers also cite a vignette title-page state in which the reward notice on the sign-post shows the pound sign transposed to follow the sum rather than precede it, together with seven studs on the trunk lid; bibliographers Hatton and Cleaver, however, found the vignette was etched in triplicate, with two plates showing the sign correctly placed and one transposed, all three in simultaneous use throughout the parts issue, so this reading does not establish true priority within the first edition