12mo (185 x 125 mm). Half-title, 33 engraved plates of (34, lacking plate for p. 275 "Hold me! I'm so frightened!") including the frontispiece and pictorial title-page, and numerous illustrations after John McLenan. (Overall spotting, some light dampstaining to the lower margin of a few leaves, a few short marginal tears not affecting text.) Original brown cloth decorated in gilt and blind (some light wear and staining).

"Illustrated Duodecimo" edition, one of the earliest American editions, and one of several authorized editions issued by Peterson and Brothers in 1861. Smith, p. 377 ("Illustrated Duodecimo" edition).

[With:] DICKENS. Mr. Nightingale's Diary: A Farce in One Act. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. 16mo (120 x 82 mm). Publisher's advertisement endpapers. Original green cloth decorated in black and gilt-lettered (spine darkened, slight wear, covers starting); slipcase. Provenance: previous bookseller's description tipped to front pastedown. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, preceded by the original edition, privately printed in 1851, of which Eckel states only 3 known copies. Eckel (1913), pp. 184-185; Yale/Gimbel B215.