Page viii, "recoltions" changed to "recollections" (Another schoolfellow's recollections)
Page ix, extraneous page number removed Original text read:
Writing _Pickwick_, Nos. 14 127 and 15 127
Page 59, "t" changed to "it" (it as early as)
Page 117, "reisssue" changed to "reissue" (Scheme to reissue)
Page 224, "s" changed to "is" (there is little further)
Page 224, "hab" changed to "habit" (his invariable habit)
Page 242, "axing" changed to "taxing" (taxing ingenuity to)
Page 242, "f" chagned to "of" (of sheer insanity)
Page 286, word "I" inserted into text. (I have heard of)
To retain the integrity of the original text, varied hyphenations, capitalizations, and, at times, spellings were retained.
Varied hyphenation and capitalization of Devonshire Terrace was retained. Also fac-simile and facsimile. Varied spelling of A'Beckett/A'Becket was retained.
For the reader: Italic text is surrounded by _underscores_, bold text is surrounded by =equal signs= and underlined text is surrounded by ~tildes~. Two breves above the letter e are indicated by [)e] in the text.
[Illustration: Signature: Charles Dickens]
CORRECTIONS MADE IN THE LATER EDITIONS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
A NOTICE written under date of the 23rd December, 1871, appeared with the Tenth Edition. "Such has been the rapidity of the demand for successive impressions of this book, that I have found it impossible, until now, to correct at pages 31, 87, and 97 three errors of statement made in the former editions; and some few other mistakes, not in themselves important, at pages 96, 101, and 102. I take the opportunity of adding, that the mention at p. 83 is not an allusion to the well-known 'Penny' and 'Saturday' magazines, but to weekly periodicals of some years' earlier date resembling them in form. One of them, I have since found from a later mention by Dickens himself, was presumably of a less wholesome and instructive character. 'I used,' he says, 'when I was at school, to take in the _Terrific Register_, making myself unspeakably miserable, and frightening my very wits out of my head, for the small charge of a penny weekly; which, considering that there was an illustration to every number in which there was always a pool of blood, and at least one body, was cheap.' An obliging correspondent writes to me upon my reference to the Fox-under-the-hill, at p. 62: 'Will you permit me to say, that the house, shut up and almost ruinous, is still to be found at the bottom of a curious and most precipitous court, the entrance of which is just past Salisbury-street. . . . It was once, I think, the approach to the halfpenny boats. The house is now shut out from the water-side by the Embankment.'" I proceed to state in detail what the changes thus referred to were.