3 volumes. iii, [3], 275; [6], 277; [4], 279 pp. With 78 hand-colored aquatint plates by Rowlandson, including frontispieces, plus hand-colored aquatint title-page vignettes. 8vo. Uniformly bound in full late nineteenth century blue leavant morocco, ruled in gilt, spines tooled and lettered in gilt, raised bands, inner gilt dentelles, dark burgundy endpapers, all edges gilt; bound by Riviere & Son. First Edition; Volume I first issue; Volume II second issue.
First issue of The First Tour, with text beginning "Chapter I" instead of "Canto I," and with first state of Plate 5 (opposite p.14), with the girl's right arm straight instead of bent; second issue of The Second Tour, with second state of Plate 15 (opposite p.198), with corrected "Skimmington" instead of "Skimerton." Grolier, Rowlandson, 20-22; Abbey, Life, 266-267; Tooley 427-429.
Condition:
Light rubs and nicks to edges, scattered slight archival repairs with semi-transparent white substance (including to Volume III joints); contents a bit darkened, hinges tender, occasional foxing, faint evidence of label removal on front pastedowns; else very good or better.