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xvi, 376 pp. Ad pages not retained. With 36 hand-colored aquatint plates by Robert & George Cruikshank; 3 folding engraved plates of music; woodcuts in the text. (8vo) 23.5x14.5 cm (9¼x6"), later full blue levant morocco tooled in gilt, raised bands, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. Bound by Reviere. First Edition, Second Issue.

Second issue with footnote on p.9, first sheet of music not numbered; early state of p.376, with "good-bies" on first line; early state of the half-title, with imprint on verso in lower left. There was an unnumbered leaf "To Subscribers" following p.276, but, as Tooley states, "it is rare and usually missing as it forms no part of a signature, and the work is complete without it"; it is not present in this copy. Abbey Life 281; Tooley 196.