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185641005<p>London : J. & C. Brown & Co. 1856. First edition : with the variant undated title-page. "I returned to Scotland Yard to report ." - the very first appearance in fiction of a Scotland Yard detective - indeed the first English detective stories. "Waters" of the Yard was the invention of journalist William Russell - the stories originally published in Chambers' Edinburgh Journal between 1849 and 1852 with some of the stories appearing in book form in New York in 1852. The present publication is the first appearance of all eleven with a final twelfth tale not previously published. Foolscap 8vo 18cm. 310pp. Wood-engraved frontispiece engraved by George Measom 1818-1901 later knighted for his charitable work. Original pictorial boards a dramatic yellowback design in red and black; rebacked with a neat paper spine replacing the fragile lost original; some rubbing and wear; internally a few small marks spots and slight creases but overall an attractive copy of a cornerstone of the genre.</p> London : J. & C. Brown & Co., (1856). hardcover