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SMITH, Albert Richard (1816-60). The Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole at Home and Abroad, London: Richard Bentley, 1948. 8° (210 x 132mm). Wood-engraved portrait of the author by Baugniet and 32 plates by John Leech. (Some very light staining, a few spots.) Finely-bound in 19th-century scarlet half morocco gilt by Henry Young and Sons of Liverpool, spine gilt in compartments, top edges gilt (a few light scuff marks to extremities), original wrapper to Part I. inserted at the front, inscribed, "... with Albert Smith's regards" (the recipient's name cropped). FIRST EDITION.
With Frank E. Smedley's Frank Fairlegh, or Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil (London, [1850]), Harry Coverdale's Courtship, and all that came of it (London, [?1854]) and Lewis Arundel; or, the Railroad of Life (London, 1855), attractively-bound in uniform green half calf gilt, and 5 other works in 9 volumes bound in half calf gilt. (13)
With Frank E. Smedley's Frank Fairlegh, or Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil (London, [1850]), Harry Coverdale's Courtship, and all that came of it (London, [?1854]) and Lewis Arundel; or, the Railroad of Life (London, 1855), attractively-bound in uniform green half calf gilt, and 5 other works in 9 volumes bound in half calf gilt. (13)
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