London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition in book form, later issue. Thick 8vo. xiv, (ii), 609 pp., including facsimile half-title. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title-page, and 41 engraved plates, by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz") and Robert Seymour. Finely bound in full crushed crimson morocco, decorated in gilt, laid into front board is the original re-engraved steel plate of "The Cricket Match" by Robert William Buss for the 1932 Lombard Edition; all edges gilt; gilt dentelles; crimson silk doublures and free endleaves; by Bayntun; circular gilt morocco book-plate of Paul Edward Chevalier on front blank; scattered toning and spotting; top corner repaired, GG5 and GG6, smaller repair in top corner, M6; in quarter red morocco solander box. Smith I, 3; Gimbel A15; Hatton and Cleaver, pp. 1-88; Eckel, pp. 17-58; Grolier English 78

A finely bound first edition in book form.