Eight editions

At the age of 50 he decided to retire from business. As an aftermath, he wrote a book about himself. In this book he complained about his wife, politicians, clergy, and the like. He called his work "A Pickle for the Knowing Ones or Plain Truth in a Homespun Dress", and it contained almost 9 thousand words and 34 thousands letters. But there was not a single punctuation mark in the whole book! So what do you think happened?

You are right, his book became a bestseller of those times. Following the success of his book, the second edition was immediately published, where Dexter added only one additional page of punctuation marks. His advice to readers was to use these punctuation marks at any place of the book, as they please. Overall, there were eight editions of his book published one after another.