New-York: Pudney & Russell, 1859. First edition, presumed first issue "press copy" variant: without frontispiece portrait or plates, but with title-page dated 1859 and with quotations from Shakespeare and Burns, also with tipped in handbill ca. 1868 or later with the text of the epitaph on Morton's tomb. With a later 20th century portrait of William Thomas Green Morton tipped in at front. Publisher's black cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt, spine ends chipped, corners worn, small nicks to rear board, minor worming to edges; all edges trimmed; some prelims starting to spring, scattered minor foxing to prelims and text margins, lightly toned.