Nearly 20,000 copies sold in the first year and the entire original printing was sold out within three years.
When the book was being printed, her publisher was certain they would never publish more than the original printing of 3,000.
Only three or four copies of the original printing have survived and it has always been extremely rare.
They are more common than the original 1840 printing.
Careful study can determine if an error comes from the original 1901 or 1922 printing.
The type inside was enlarged to about twice the size of the original printing.
Later editions added the proper question mark missing from its title in the original printings.
Many of the original printings from the press were destroyed.
The original printing was 360,500 copies, with an additional 24,500 ordered before the end of 2002.
If you can't wait, you can find the original printing in some libraries.