This story of the (usually serialized first) books' publishing history is interesting. (Many also had special 'Christmas editions'.) "... if variations in bind

This story of the (usually serialized first) books' publishing history is interesting. (Many also had special 'Christmas editions'.) "... if variations in binding color are considered, more than 4000 different combinations of text and binding were published between 1866 and 1919." http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/archives/v3_1/harpold/ http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/archives/v3_1/harpold/