366 pp. Double frontispiece (including portrait) plus numerous wood engravings after E.W. Kemble. 8½x6¼, original green pictorial cloth stamped in black & gilt. First American Edition, later issue.

A bright and attractive copy of one of the high spots of American literature. This copy can be considered a later issue, and exhibits the following states, among others: title leaf is a conjugate, with copyright dated 1884; illustration captioned Him and another Man [p.13] listed as appearing on p.87; 11th line from bottom of p.57 reads "...with the saw..."; p.283 is a conjugate with corrected engraving; final 5 in p.155 is slightly larger, so extends slightly below the other numerals; leaf 23-8 is present as a blank leaf; 3rd state of the frontispiece portrait, with the imprint of the Photo-Gravure Company and no tablecloth visible. BAL 3415.