London, Bradbury & Evans,1850. xvi (errata with 6 lines) + 624 pp. + 40 plates including frontispiece and title-page vignette by "Phiz."

Contemporary full cloth, scuffed, repair to spine, hinges weak, foxed (severe foxing to verso of plates in some cases).

First Edition. Issue points: Chapter 27 is on page 282 rather than page 283 as listed in the table of contents, pages 16:1 and 225:22 both read "recal", 19:39 reads "cha pter ;ut"; 387:45 reads "coroboration", 472:37 has no closing of the quotation marks, and the first state of the engraved vignette title page (dated) is present. "Screamed" has been corrected to "screwed" on page 132:20, however, and there is a half-title present.

Wear.