Two volumes. Extra-illustrated with the insertion of 102 portraits and engravings. (8vo) 7¼x5, bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full red morocco with later leather repair to joints, raised bands, spine compartments lettered and decorated in gilt, top edges gilt. First English Edition.

Also inserted are 2 Ticknor & Fields royalty checks payable to L. M[aria] Child (1865) and Alice Cary (1858), each endorsed on rear by the respective payee; the calling card of J.T. Fields with an autograph note, signed, on reverse; and a 4pp autograph letter, signed, from Fields to Miss [Mary Russell] Mitford, dated Dec. 1853, regarding various of her writings.