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PDFOf all American authors, those of school-books excepted, there is no one of whose books so many have been circulated as those of Mr. Irving. Prior to the publication of the edition recently issued by Mr. Putnam, the sale had amounted to some hundreds of thousands; and yet of that edition, selling at $1.25 per volume, it has already amounted to 144,000 vols. Of “Uncle Tom,” the sale has amounted to 295,000 copies, partly in one, and partly in two volumes, and the total number of volumes amounts probably to about 450,000.
Price per vol. Volumes.
Of the two works of Miss Warner,
Queechy, and the Wide, Wide World, the
price and sale have been. $ 88
104,000
Fern Leaves, by Fanny Fern, in six months. 1 25 45,000
Reveries of a Bachelor, and other
books,
by Ike Marvel. 1 25
70,000
Alderbrook, by Fanny Forester, 3 vols. 50 33,000
Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave 1 00 20,000
Novels of Mrs. Hentz, in three years 63 93,000
Major Jones’ Courtship and Travels 50 31,000
Salad for the Solitary, by a new
author,
in five months
1 25 5,000
Headley’s Napoleon and his
Marshals, Washington
and his Generals, and other
works. 1 25 200,000
Stephen’s Travels in Egypt and Greece. 87 80,000
" " Yucatan and Central America 2 50 60,000
Kendall’s Expedition to Santa Fe 1 25 40,000
Lynch’s Expedition to the Dead Sea, 8vo. $3 00 15,000
" " 2mo. 1 25 8,000
Western Scenes 2 50 14,000
Young’s Science of Government 1 00 12,000
Seward’s Life of John Quincy Adams. 1 00 30,000
Frost’s Pictorial History
of the World,
3 vols.
2 50 60,000
Sparks’ American Biography, 25 vols 75 100,000
Encyclopaedia Americana, 14 vols. 2 00 280,000
Griswold’s Poets and Prose
Writers
of America, 3 vols.
3 00 21,000
Barnes’ Notes on the Gospels,
Epistles, &c.,
11 vols.
75 300.000
Aiken’s Christian Minstrel, in two years. 62 40,000
Alexander on the Psalms, 3 vols. 1 17 10,000
Buist’s Flower Garden Directory 1 25 10,000
Cole on Fruit Trees. 50 18,000
" Diseases of Domestic Animals 50 34,000
Downing’s Fruits and Fruit Trees. 50 15,000
" Rural Essays. 3 50 3,000
