While the novel was an immediate success in Italy, going through 52 editions in the first four months, not all critics loved it.
It was very successful, going through ten editions in the first four years alone (see Fyfe 2002).
That Locke's works on education had considerable influence is indicated by the four editions that were published in his lifetime, a fifth that came out after his death and some twenty one editions in the eighteenth century.
Appleton's 1895 publication went through ten editions in the first year alone, making Crane an overnight success at the age of twenty-four.
The short book sold more than 200,000 copies, many of which were passed from hand to hand, and which went into twenty-seven edinions in the first few months despite not being carried by several major bookshops.
Brooke edited further editions and, in the sixth edition of 1867, thoroughly updated it.
The ASD code was subsequently published in various editions, through the ninth in 1989.
And in some editions, several paragraphs in the second column of type of the continuation of the article were out of order.
Verses 1, 3, and 5 of the 1843 edition are in the first person, whereas verses 2, 4, and 7 are in the third.
The book is long – 793 pages in the first edition of 1917, 1116 pages in the second edition of 1942.
This textbook saw three later editions: the second in 1935, the third in 1947, and the fourth in 1958.
