Description

Original Cloth. Good/No Jacket. First Edition. First American imprint, published by Harper and Brothers, Publishers. Original brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Cloth shows staining and is worn at extremities, especially at upper rear cover, with damp-stain on upper rear board and top and bottom of spine shaved. Gilt lettering at lower portion of back-strip suffering some loss to the word “Harpers”. Tissue guard between frontis and engraved title torn with some loss. Double column format illustrated with engravings. Artist is misidentified by Wilkens as Luke Fildes. Very light. sporadic foxing to text. Overall a solid, clean copy of this U.S. imprint. Podeschi A151, Wilkens p.32. Good.