3 volumes. xi, [1], 287; [4], 276; [4], 295 pp. 7x4, late nineteenth-century half calf and marbled boards, spines decoratively blind-stamped, each with two gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, raised bands tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers. First British Edition.

First British edition of Cooper's masterpiece. "The second and most famous of the Leatherstocking Tales, and the first in which the scout Natty Bumpo was made the symbol of all that was wise, heroic and romantic" - Grolier's One Hundred Influential American Books, 34 (citing American edition); Spiller & Blackburn 7; BAL 3833 (note).