KINGSLEY, Charles. The Water-Babies; A fairy tale for a land-baby, London and Cambridge: Macmillan, 1863, 8°, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "L'Envoi" leaf and final advertisement leaf (the former detached), lithographed frontispiece and one plate after J. Noel Paton (plate detached and lacking tissue guard), wood-engraved pictorial initials (B1 detached, gatherings H and I loose, preliminaries a little frayed at margins, light spotting), original blue cloth gilt (rubbed, inner hinges split, front free endpaper detached), t.e.g., later green morocco-backed solander case.