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HUNT (LEIGH)A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla... Illustrated by Richard Doyle FIRST EDITION, wood-engraved illustrations by the Dalziel Brothers and others after Doyle, 16pp. advertisements at end, publisher's glazed pictorial yellow, green and gold boards designed by Owen Jones g.e., decorative endpapers, preserved in fabric-lined solander box [McLean, VDCP, p.132], 8vo, Smith, Elder & Co., 1848; and another copy, Michael Sadleir's copy in yellow cloth (2)FootnotesUnusually fine copy in a glazed pictorial binding designed by Owen Jones together with Michael Sadleir's copy in cloth. "Much more elaborate was a novelty published by Smith, Elder... A Jar of Honey.... This book exists in two bindings, full orange cloth and full decorated glazed boards" (Sadleir, "Collecting Yellowbacks", in New Paths, 1934). Sadleir suggests the decorated version was "an innovation in gay clothing suitably applied to a Christmas gift-book" having been advertised for sale in the publisher's list for December 1847.