Item - Beadle's Dime Dialogues no. 2

The first edition of No. 2 is of the same size as the first edition of No. 1. It has a grayish-cream cover of the same design, and the title page is also similar. There are 80 pages. Louis Legrand is given as the editor, and Irwin P. Beadle & Co., 141 William Street, as publishers. Later the book was advertised November 3, 1860 by the firm under its new name, Beadle & Co., but from the same address. Still later copies have wrappers with the new address, but the title pages of many, perhaps all, copies retain the Irwin P. Beadle & Co. imprint, either because the stereotype was not changed, or, more probably, because these copies had already been printed, and new grayish wrappers only were put on.

The second edition of No. 2, marked "Revised and enlarged edition," has the first 80 pages exactly the same as the preceding, but 16 pages were added. The cover is cream colored, wrapper and title page read Beadle & Co., 118 William Street, but the name Louis Legrand is omitted as editor. The copyright date is December 8, 1863.

The third edition has the usual orange wrappers of the Dime Novels, and has a picture on the front illustrating the dialogue with the title given above. The format is slightly larger and is the same as that of the Dime Novels and the succeeding dialogues. The publishers were Beadle & Co., 118 William Street. There are 97 pages of dialogues, one blank page and two of advertisements. Actually the number of pages is less, for Beadle cheated a bit on preliminary pages.

Still later editions bear whatever firm name and address was current at the time of issue.--Johannsen, A. House of Beadle and Adams