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Sam SUch's IFi-s'C Saws and Modem Instances; or, Wliat he Said, Did, 

 or Invented. 



1. [1st éd.] London : Hursi é Blackett, 1853, 2 vols. 12mo. Vol. I, pp. vi, 



342; vol. IL pp. iv, 315. (No plates.) 



Morgan gives the date of the first edition as 1843. This is 

 an error. 



2. An. ed. Philadelphia : Blanchard d Lea, 1853, 8vo. pp. 291. 



n. 2nd ed. London : Hurst & Blaclcett, 1854, 2 vols. 12nio. vol. I. pp. x, 342 ; 

 vol. IL pp. iv, 315. (No plates.) 



4. An. ed. New York, 1855, 12mo. pp. 33G. 



Published under the title " Wise Saws, or, Sam Slick in 

 Search of a Wife." 



5. " " London: Hurst tC- Blackett, 1859, 12mo. pp. (v), (I), 329. 



Frontispiece by John Leech. 



6. " " London: Hurst d Blackett, n.d., "A new edition," 12mo. pp. (7). 



329. Frontispiece by John Leech. 



7. " " New York : Dick é Fitzgerald, n.d., 12mo. 



Published under the title " Sam Slick in Search of a Wife." 



8. " " New York : George Munro, 1880, 4to. 



In Seaside Library, No. 895, December, 1880. 



Dedicated to Alexander Haliburton. 



" The Wise Saws and Modern Instances evince powers of imagina- 

 tion and expression far beyond what even his former publications could 

 lead anyone to ascribe to the author." — Standard. 



" Its quaint and racy dialect will please some readers. Its abund- 

 ance of yarns will amuse others." — Atlienœum. 



" It is remarkable alike for its racy humour, its sound philosophy, 

 the feliciiy of its illustrations, and the delicacy of its satire. Whether he 

 ÏS making love to Sophy, or chatting with the President about English 

 men and manners, or telling ghost stories, or indulging in day dreams, or 

 sketching the characters of Yankee skippers, or poaching in our fisheries, 

 or enticing a British man-of-war on to a sand-bar, he is equally delight- 

 ful."— il/or?n'n^ Post. 



" As a work embodying the cynicism of Eochefoucault, with tlie 

 acuteness of Pascal, and the experience of Theophrastus or La Bruyère, 

 it may be said that, except Don Quixote, the present work ha? no rival." 

 — Observer. 



The Season-Ticlcet. 



Richard Bentley, 1860, 12mo. pp. (10), 376. 



Richard Bentley, 1861, 12mo. 



Richard Bentley, 1866, 12mo. 



Frederick Wame é Co., [1872] 8vo. pp. aSO. 



