Essays: Second Series

Myerson records four binding states (A-D) distinguished by cloth grain and color; state A alone is lettered "2D. SERIES." on the spine, while states B-D read "SECOND SERIES." Two separate 1844 printings exist with twenty-three minor textual differences catalogued by Myerson; because Munroe bound sheets from both printings together, nearly every surviving copy is a mix of the two, and copies composed wholly of first-printing sheets are scarce