. MacMillan & Co, n.d. [1868], 332pp, 2pp of adverts. pp. Frontispiece, the Title page is printed in red, blue, and sepia. This FIRST EDITION binding variation has slightly smaller, decorated boards; the front cover has a Sunday Library for Household Reading gilt device and gilt crosses and rules around the edge; all page edges are gilt. Spine lightly sunned, otherwise, VERY GOOD. $175.00

Note: Publisher’s adverts, as early as Jan 1869, indicate that the book was published in two forms, costing gilt edges 4s. 6d (above) and 4s. (without gilt edges and a less elaborate binding) below.