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4 vols., 8vo., with four engraved frontispieces, engraved and printed titles, and very numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout, neat contemporary signature on printed titles, some very light, occasional and inoffensive spotting; original patterned cloth elaborately blocked in blind, backs gilt extra, lightly rubbed at headbands (without material loss) one or two corners lightly bruised else a very good, clean copy. With the contemporary trade ticket of M. Ogle of Glasgow on front paste-down, and the binder's ticket of Leighton Son & Hodge on rear paste-down. With 4pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end of fourth volume. An early reissue of the National Illustrated Library Edition, the first illustrated version, first published in 1851. It is a reprint of Malone's sixth edition with a few original notes. 'The illustrations are profuse and useful' (Pottle). A SPLENDID, WHOLLY UNRESTORED AND ENTIRELY TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF A MID-VICTORIAN EDITION COMPLETE WITH PATTERNED CLOTH BINDING, PIBLISHER'S ADVERTISEMENT AND BOOKSELLER'S AND BINDER'S TICKETS. Leighton Son & Hodge were leading trade and remnant binders of the latter half of the nineteenth century. Pottle, 94 (recording the NLI 1851 edition).