1. Numerous editions appeared under various titles. Many of them were pirated (eg, Waldie's Select Circulating Library edition, Philadelphia, 1833), and many were abridged.

2. His book was a novel; it had the Catchpenny cover, and while the romance of life stood neglected at his side he lost himself in that of the circulating library.--Henry James, 1893, "The Middle Years", Scribner's Magazine 13: 610 October 28, 2009