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Originally Posted by tompe
Not without changing edition number.
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Are you sure?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edition_(book)
This article seems to say that edition numbers were not formalized till 1949, so it seems unlikely that Dickens even used them.
Small excerpt, not saying it is correct, but I do not think edition numbers were sacrosanct or even widely (ever?) used in Dickens time.
Please feel free to correct me with proof that Dickens or his original publishers did as you say.
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Publishers use the term first edition for their own purposes, with little consistency. The "first edition" of a trade book may be the first edition by the current publisher, or the first edition with a particular set of illustrations or editorial commentary.
Non-fiction, academic and textbook publishers generally distinguish between revisions of the text, usually citing the dates of the first and latest editions on the copyright page. However, even this rule of thumb is sometimes bent. A new textbook with a different format, title, and authors may be called a "second edition" because a previous textbook is being counted as the first, despite being essentially a different book (sharing only the subject with the new one). This stretch of the definition is done for its marketing effect, because the new textbook may seem more authoritative to the potential buyer if it implies that there have been "previous editions".
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Helen