A Romance, 3 vol., first edition, half-title to vol.3 only (as issued), engraved portrait frontispiece, 27 etched plates by George Cruikshank with an additional hand-coloured set of the plates, portrait very lightly offset onto the title, otherwise a fine set in later red morocco, gilt, by Rivière & Son, spines gilt in compartments, t.e.g., others uncut, with A.L.s. from the author to a poet mentioning the work loosely inserted in envelope, together with volumes in cloth slip-case, [Cohn 12; Sadleir 14], 8vo, 1839. *** An exceptional copy.
A Romance, 3 vol., first edition, half-title to vol.3 only (as issued), engraved portrait frontispiece, 27 etched plates by George Cruikshank with an additional hand-coloured set of the plates, portrait very lightly offset onto the title, otherwise a fine set in later red morocco, gilt, by Rivière & Son, spines gilt in compartments, t.e.g., others uncut, with A.L.s. from the author to a poet mentioning the work loosely inserted in envelope, together with volumes in cloth slip-case, [Cohn 12; Sadleir 14], 8vo, 1839. *** An exceptional copy.
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