(GEN) Bound without the terminal advertisements in Volumes II and III. A presentation copy, inscribed on the title page to Volume I: ìRev. B. Smith Memento Mei G.C. 1853.î C.G. is accomplished nature artist George Crisp of St. Peterís College, Oxford. On each pastedown is a charming oil representation of an insect, bird, or snake.||(CON) Vol I; A4, B-O12, P7, Contents. A1r Title, A1v Imprint of George Woodfall And Son; A2r-A4r Preface, A4v blank; B1r-P7r Text, P7v blank.Vol II; A1, B-Q12, R1, Contents. A1r Title, A1v Imprint of George Woodfall And Son; B1r-R1v Text.Vol III; A1, B-R12, S1, Contents. A1r Title, A1v Imprint of George Woodfall And Son; B1r-S1v Text.||(REF) Block p. 199 (states first edition as 1848); Summers, A Gothic Bibliography, pp. 256-7; Wolff 5924; NUC locates IU and NcU only;||(BIN) Full green hard-grained morocco, sides elaborately bordered in gilt, spines gilt, a.e.g. 

3v. Large 12mo.