8vo (222 x 135 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved title, 38 engraved plates after Hablot K. Browne ["Phiz"]. (Plates with browning and spotting as usual, some light spotting.) Original green blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt (rebacked preserving original spine, endpapers renewed, some soiling and wear). 

 

FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, in a variant binding, including the first example of a so-called "dark plate," facing p. 547. Eckel pp.82-85; Sadleir 691; Smith I:8. 

 

Property of an Illinois collector