You are probably lucky you were able to find the expanded edition at all. I remember that "Varney the Vampire or the feast of Blood" (another long serial from that time) was hard to find. I think the whole thing was only at one site through (I think) the University of Virginia or some such. Not sure that the page is even still there now. Most copies only seem to have partial copies of the manuscript. Probably many serials from that time are incomplete though. People would read them and throw the paper away afterward I imagine, much like OTR recordings. The radio stations often didn't preserve them. It was the average person who had a recorder who is responsible for a lot of what we still have of those shows.
|