Between the Covers

Hardcover. First edition, later issue. Lacks half-title (as usual), with 8-line errata page, and the following issue points: in the title-page vignette, Capt. Cuttle"s hook is on his left arm; p. xv, no page entry for the frontispiece and vignette, and no quotation marks around "the Party" line 2; p. 14, ten lines up, "aint" has no apostrophe; p. 26, line 11 has "fidgetty"; on p. 40, "shewed" and "shew" instead of "showed" and "show"; p. 284, fifth and sixth lines from the bottom, "Delight" instead of "Joy"; "Capatin" instead of "Captain" last line p. 324; p. 582, the last line has no end period. Thick octavo. Forty illustrations (including frontispiece and title-page vignette) by Browne ("Phiz"). three-quarter calf and marbled papercovered boards. Bookplate of Henry Lomax Gaskell, some light foxing, spine rebacked with some mild restoration to covers, a sound, very good copy.

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