Publication History
Editions of Letters from High Latitudes include:
- John Murray, London, 1857 (1st edition half-leather)
- John Murray, London, 1857 (2nd edition)
- John Murray, London, 1857 (3rd edition)
- John Murray, London, 1858 (4th edition)
- Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1859 (1st edition)
- R. Worthington, New York, 1878 (3rd edition)
- Adam, Stevenson & Co., Toronto, 1872
- John Murray, London, 1873 (6th edition) (1st Canadian edition)
- Lovell, Adam, Wesson. & Company, New York, 1873
- Lovell, Adam, Wesson & Company, New York, (nd (188?) edition contains a Preface to the Third edition, as well as preface to Canadian edition)
- R. Worthington, New York,1882
- John Murray, London, 1883 (7th edition)
- John Murray, London, 1887 (8th edition)
- John Murray, London, 1891 (9th edition)
- Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1891
- Wm. L. Allison Company, New York, 1895
- John Murray, London, 1895 (10th edition)
- John Murray, London, 1902 (11th edition)
- John Murray, London, 1903 (Canadian edition)
- J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., London, 1910
- John Murray, London, 1913 (Canadian edition; reprint)
- Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1924. Introduction by R.W. Macan
- Dent, London, 1925. Everyman's Library Volume 399
- Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1934 (The World's Classics)
- J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1940
- The Merlin Press, London. 1989 (paperback reprint of Canadian edition)
- Seafarer Books, 1991 (paperback facsimile of 1856 edition)
- Kessinger Publishing, 2004 (paperback)
- Lightning Source Inc, 2006
Edition of A Cruise in Northern Seas
- Henry Frowde, London 1920
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