Statistics for occurrence #1 of “D. Appleton” in chapter 13 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature:

...Cary's , in American men of letters series, 1894. Good editions of Irving and Cooper are so numerous as to need no specification. The standard edition of Bryant is P. Godwin's, 4 vols., D. Appleton & Co., 1883-1884. For critical estimates of the Knickerbocker School, see particularly Wendell's , Bk. IV., VI.; and C. E. Woodberry's essay in , July, 1902. G. T. Curtis's...
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D. Appleton 132 6 0 0 0 user votes
Henry D. Appleton 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
B. D. Appleton 2 0 0 0 0 user votes

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