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184027582Charles Daly 1840. Sm. 8vo. with engraved frontispiece and 3 engraved plates mildly age-soiled; strongly bound in original green ribbed cloth boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind pictorial gilt back primrose endpapers expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down a most attractive bright clran crisp copy. With the blind trade stamp of Thos Johnson of Manchester on rear free endpaper. The first version of Fielding's rumbustious tale illustrated by Phiz. Printed by Bensley of Woking this is not the more usual Churton issue of the same year. VERY SCARCE. Charles Daly, hardcover
183228122James Cochrane 1832. 2 vols. 8vo. First Edition thus with frontispieces original tissue guards present and 6 plates; original silk moire boards backstrips with labels printed in gilt uncut expertly recased a remarkably well-preserved bright clean fresh copy. Complete with printed series titles The Novelist's Library vols. VIII and IX and series prospectus bound in at front. Published as vols. VIII and IX in Thomas Roscoe's 'Novelists's Library'. A lovely copy in minimally restored publisher's binding. THIS IS THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THESE CRUIKSHANK ILUSTRATIONS COMMISSIONED BY ROSCOE FOR THIS SERIES IN 1831. See Evans pp.77-79. COPIES IN THE ORIGINAL AND FRAGILE SERIES BINDING ARE SCARCE. James Cochrane, hardcover
