8vo (210 x 135 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved title, 36 (of 38) engraved plates after Hablot K. Browne ["Phiz"]. (Lacking plates facing p.113 and p.117. (Plates with browning and spotting as usual, damp-stain lower margin, some light spotting.) Later half dark green morocco gilt, spine gilt, edges marbled (upper hinge reinforced, lower hinge separated, some rubbing). Provenance: Thomas William Oliver (signature); Ed Woakes (signature); The University of Chicago Library (bookplate, deaccession stamp).

 

FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, including the first example of a so-called "dark plate," facing p. 547. Eckel pp.82-85; Gimbel A103; Sadleir 691; Smith I:8