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Everyman's Library Volume Consolidation

Early in the Everyman's Library series, longer works (such as The Wealth of Nations and Amelia) were split into two volumes.  According to Bill Hornick, all early EMLs were of uniform height and width.  Whether the book was two hundred pages or four hundred pages, the uniform width was accomplished by adjusting the thickness of the paper or by splitting the book into two volumes or more.

Later during the series, some of the two volume sets were combined into a single volume.  Listed below are the known titles which were consolidated into one volume from two.  In all cases except one (Eliot's Daniel Deronda) the consolidated volume used the serial number of the first volume.  This list does not include the case where two different titles were later combined into one volume (e.g. Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion).  It also does not include four titles that, according to Terry Seymour, were two volume sets available concurrently as a single volume in the library binding and/or a special leatherette binding (Dictionary of Quotations, Duruy's Short History of France, Green's Short History of the English People, and Roget's Thesaurus).



Serial Number

Author

Title

1.2 Boswell Life of Samuel Johnson (in one volume)
31.2 Carlyle French Revolution (in one volume)
220.2 Evelyn Diary of John Evelyn (in one volume)
259.2 Kirby (tr) Kalevala (in one volume)
391.2 Trollope Last Chronicle of Barset (in one volume)
397.2 Prescott Conquest of Mexico (in one volume)
412.2 Smith, A. Wealth of Nations (in one volume)
540.3 Eliot Daniel Deronda (in one volume)
638.2 Cobbett Rural Rides (in one volume)
717.1 Sturluson Heimskringla: Part One - The Olaf Sagas (in one volume)
752.2 Misc Paston Letters Complete Edition (in one volume)
845.2 Boccaccio Decameron Complete Edition (in one volume)
848.2 Marx Capital Complete Edition (in one volume)
852.2 Fielding Amelia (in one volume)
865.2 Radcliffe Mysteries of Udolpho (in one volume)
984.3 Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding Complete Edition (in one volume)

16 titles found

Dent also produced two (and three) in one volumes under the Dent's Double and Treble Volume name.

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