8vo (219 x 138mm). Half-title, frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 38 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne. (Some light mostly marginal toning to plates, text generally clean, upper fore-corner bumped slightly affecting c.30 pages at beginning.) Late 19th-century half morocco gilt over marbled boards, with original printed front wrappers to each part bound in at rear (front cover detached, minor wear to spine ends and extremities, corners lightly bumped, some rubbing to boards). 

 

FIRST EDITION, bound from the original monthly parts, with most early issue points listed in Smith, including 2-line errata, first state vignette title, “Capatin” for “Captain” in last line on p. 324, “if” missing in  line 9 on p. 426, no period at end of last line on p. 582. Smith I:8.