Cloth casing, with a gilt device.
A repeat of Richard Doyle’s wood-engraved illustration on the pictorial title page.
1851; new edition dated 1858.
Wood-engraved transfer on pink paper boards.
8¼ x 6 inches
This is a variant binding: the version bound in ‘cloth elegant’ and with hand-coloured illustrations was sold at 4 shillings and sixpence; the one shown here is the cheap imprint, in black and white and bound in paper, as 2/6. Both versions repeat the image on the title page. Few copies have survived in their paper format and the copy shown here is in remarkably good condition.
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Photograph and text by Simon Cooke