8vo. 6pp. publisher’s advertisements at end. (Some spotting as usual.) Original drab purple-brown cloth, publisher’s device at center of each cover, orange coated endpapers, 2 flyleaves at front and 3 at end (rubbed and worn). Provenance: A. L. Johnson (signature on title-page dated 1852); B. Dawson (bookseller’s label). 

 

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, first binding, following the London edition by a month and containing some thirty-five passages not present in the English edition. BAL 13664; Grolier American 60; Johnson High Spots 57. An unsophisticated copy.