In 1831, Cooper revised and added an introduction and notes to the Bentley Standard Novels Edition, first published that year. This copy of the Carey stereotype edition belonged to James Beard and was collated on the Hinman Collator for the Cooper Edition. Gregory, successor to Stringer & Townsend, in 1864. Stringer & Townsend acquired the plates around 1849 and they were still in use by James G. Cooper's work sold well, and a stereotype edition was published later that same year. The copy-text for the Cooper Edition is the Carey & Lea edition that was published in two volumes in February 1826. Because Cooper destroyed the manuscripts of his early novels before going to Europe in 1826, no manuscript of The Last of the Mohicans survives. The Last of the Mohicans is the second but most well-known and well-read novel in Cooper's Leatherstocking series.
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