8vo (220 x 137 mm). Frontispiece, folding plate, 19 plates, numerous illustrations, 2pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. (Some light spotting, toning and soiling.) Modern calf-backed marbled boards, red and green leather lettering-pieces gilt, edges sprinkled brown.

FIRST EDITION, early issue with the following issue points: Everybody's Friend in first state with "truex inde"; first state title-page dated to 1873 with "White" included in the list of illustrators and the electrotype's imprint verso; the earliest printing of the heading for chapter V on p. [vii] with "Eschol Sellers"; the final illustration on p. xiv is labeled "211"; no comma after "Hallelujah" on p. 246; a period after "Dr. Jackson" on p. 280, and lacking illustration on p.403; but with the corrected states of pp. 351-353.  BAL 3357.