One volume bound from 6 original parts (215 x 134 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by J.H. Baker from a photograph, engraved title after Luke Fildes, 12 wood-engraved plates by Dalziel, C. Roberts and others after Fildes. (A few minor stains or spots.) Later polished green calf gilt; original blue-green pictorial wrappers bound in. Provenance: George Martin (bookplate); Edward Drummond and Florence Scott Libbey (bookplate); M. Scott Chapin (blind stamp). 

 

FIRST EDITION, BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL PARTS, with all covers and ads as listed in Hatton and Cleaver including the scarce "Cork Hat" ad, with the following exceptions: part 4 lacking 4pp. Wilcox & Gibbs ad; part 5 lacking Chapman and Hall ad dated 31 July 1870 part 5. Eckel pp. 96-98; Hatton and Cleaver pp. 373-384; Gimbel A154.

 

Property of an Illinois collector