Crossword-Solution: PRINTINGS 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

First there was the Voltaire text, Authorized Edition, 'end of September, 1740;' then came, in few weeks, the Van Duren one; then, probably, a third, combining the two, the variations given as foot-notes:--in short, I know not how many editions, translations, printings and reprintings; all the world being much taken up with such a message from the upper regions, and eager to read it in any form.

PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY The various printings of 1601 reveal how Mark Twain's 'Fireside Conversation' has become a part of the American printer's lore.

But more important, its many printings indicate that it has become a popular bit of American folklore, particularly for men and women who have a feeling for Mark Twain.

Because of the many surreptitious and anonymous printings it is exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to compile a complete bibliography.

But Emerson wrote to Whitman from Concord: "I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed." Until the Civil War was half over, Whitman remained in Brooklyn, patiently composing new poems for successive printings of his book.