xvii, 337 pp. Extra-illustrated with the insertion of approximately 30 portraits from various sources. (8vo) 7¾x5½, later three-quarter green morocco and cloth, spine gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt.

Also inserted or laid in are 20 autographed items including: Joseph Addison, partial manuscript document, signed; W. Harrison Ainsworth, autograph note, signed; Joanna Baillie, autograph letter, signed; Jeremy Bentham, autograph letter with clipped signature; Thomas Carlyle, autograph note, signed; Allan Cunningham, autograph letter, signed; William Godwin, autograph note, signed; Henry Hallam, partial document with signature; Barbara Hofland, autograph letter, signed; James Hogg, clipped signature; Theodore Hook, autograph letter, signed; Margaret Howitt, autograph letter, signed; Leigh Hunt, clipped signature; Letitia Elizabeth Langdon, autograph note, signed; John Gibson Lockhart, autograph note, signed; Frederick Marryat, autograph note, signed; Mary Russell Mitford, autograph note, signed; Samuel Richardson, partially printed document, signed; Ellen [Mrs. Henry] Wood, autograph letter, signed. Also includes an autograph letter, apparently penned on behalf of William Wordsworth, to Edmund Carrington reading: "Mr. Wordsworth has just received through Mr. Moxon Mr. Carringtons Romance of James Hatfield [James Hatfield; or, The Beauty of Buttermere, 1841] for which obliging mark of attention Mr. W returns his thanks without delay; in the fear that from his numerous engagements at this season of the year, and especially after a long absence from home, some time may elapse before he can find leisure to peruse Mr. Carringtons work; from which he promises himself much pleasure Mr. W, however must feel that the pleasure will unavoidably, as Mr. C must be aware, have a tinge of melancholy, for the recollections of a period so far back in his life, accompanied with a sense of the changes which have since taken place Mr. W. has the honor to remain Mr. Carringtons obliged ser[vant]. Rydal Mount, August 14th-41." With the bookplate of Austin Dobson.