Astoria

Published almost simultaneously in October 1836: Richard Bentley's London edition in three volumes, titled "Astoria; or, Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains," and Carey, Lea & Blanchard's Philadelphia edition in two volumes (285 and 279 pages, plus an 8-page publisher's catalogue bound in at the rear of volume two), titled "Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains." The near-simultaneous transatlantic timing was deliberate, meant to secure copyright in both Britain and the United States in the absence of any international copyright treaty