Description

Hardcovers. First Thus. 2 volumes. Topical Edition, with the 43 original illustrations and 223 additional pictures of originals of characters and places, scenes and incidents , curious topical allusions, references, analogies and facsimiles collected and annotated by C. Van Noorden. Together with the original announcement of the work, dedication of the original edition, prefaces, addresses and suppressed notes, etc., reprinted from the “Victoria Edition” with the notes by Charles Plumptre Johnson. Original blue cloth, illustrated, top edge gilt. Incidental light foxing mostly to fore-edges. Boards bright, spines mildly rubbed and faded. A very good copy of a difficult to find edition. Podeschi B23