3 vol., first edition, mixed issue, vol.1 first issue, vol.2 & 3 second issue (with "Second Edition" to titles), ink inscriptions to endpapers and final leaf of text in each vol., ex-library copy with stamps to front free endpapers, some light soiling and browning, contemporary half roan, spines gilt, spine ends chipped and worn, corners bumbed, rather rubbed, [Eckel, p. 91-93; Sadleir 688; Smith I:14], 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1861. *** Smith notes "[The] first five issues were probably printed as a single impression and published with altered titlepages...the genuine second edition was the one-volume "Library Edition" which Chapman and Hall published in 1862".
3 vol., first edition, mixed issue, vol.1 first issue, vol.2 & 3 second issue (with "Second Edition" to titles), ink inscriptions to endpapers and final leaf of text in each vol., ex-library copy with stamps to front free endpapers, some light soiling and browning, contemporary half roan, spines gilt, spine ends chipped and worn, corners bumbed, rather rubbed, [Eckel, p. 91-93; Sadleir 688; Smith I:14], 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1861. *** Smith notes "[The] first five issues were probably printed as a single impression and published with altered titlepages...the genuine second edition was the one-volume "Library Edition" which Chapman and Hall published in 1862".
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