432 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, 1 portrait ; 23 cm
Type:
Fiction
Legal stories
Dummies (Publishing)
Place:
Missouri
Date:
1894
Notes:
"With marginal illustrations."
First edition.
Originally published under title: Pudd'nhead Wilson. Cf. BAL.
Title page printed in red and black.
Variant of BAL 3442 (Cf. LCCN 54-53102). DLC
Source: Copyright deposit, Nov. 30, 1894. DLC
Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, 3442
Beckwith, J. Bruce. Bibliotheca Beckwithiana (unpublished), P 196.
SCDIRB copy 39088019623107 has bookplate: Smithsonian Libraries: The Beckwith-Browning-Peterson Teratology Collection.
SCDIRB copy cataloged with funds from Dr. Alan Peterson.
SCDIRB copy with publisher's red cloth hardcover binding, protected by clear overwrapper; with front cover and spine stamped in black, gilt lettering on both. Edges sprinkled in red. Laid in is a printed online search result on the book (1 folded leaf).
Summary:
When a mulatto slave woman switches her own infant with the look-alike son of a wealthy merchant, it takes Pudd'nhead Wilson, the town eccentric, to put things right again.