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20 parts in 19 bound in two volumes. Illustrated with 40 wood-engraved plates after Marcus Stone. (8vo) 22x14.5 cm. (8¾x5¾), full red crushed morocco, double gilt-ruled borders, spines gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Bound by G.J. Sawyer Ltd. First Edition.

First edition, bound from the original parts, the original wrappers and advertisements bound in at the rear of each volume. With all wrappers and advertisements as called for by Hatton & Cleaver except as follows: Part 1, lacking the front wrapper, the first 16 pages of the Advertiser, the "To the Reader" slip and the Groombridge & Sons ad; Part 2 with several duplicate copies of ads from Part 3; Part 4 with a slip announcing as 'Just Published...Mary Seaham" not called for by Hatton & Cleaver, lacking the Glenfield Starch ad; Part 5 lacking page 1-2 of Advertiser and the slip for "The Tale of a Chivalrous Life; Part 7 lacking rear wrapper and slips for Cassell, Petter & Galpin and Thorley's; Part 9 lacking Astra Castra ads; Part 10 lacking Capt. Mayne Reid slip and Norton's Camomile Pills ad; Part 11 lacking wrappers and all ads except the Advertiser; Part 12 lacking rear wrapper and "All the Year Round" slip; Part 13 with additional copies of Norton's Camomile Pills ad and Keating's Persian Insect Destroying Powder ad; Part 14 lacking Mappin, Webb & Co. ad and Economic Life Assurance Society ad; Part 16 lacking Mappin, Webb & Co. ad; Part 17 lacking Mappin, Webb & Co. ad; Part 18 lacks advertiser, "All the Year Round" slip; Part 19/20 lacks wrappers and Economic Life Assurance Society ads and Mappin, Webb & Co. ad. The often lacking Foreign Bank Notes slip is present. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 345-370.