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first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece, three plates and vignettes after Kenny Meadows, one plate in facsimile, original pictorial cloth gilt designed by John Leighton, small 4to, Griffith and Farran, 1857; Another edition, wood-engraved frontispiece, original pictorial cloth gilt, small 8vo, Griffith, Farren, [catalogue at end dated 1888] § Merry and Wise, edited by Old Merry, 2 vol., one with lithographed frontispiece printed in colour, the other with wood-engraved frontispiece and pictorial title printed in colour, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, contemporary half calf, small 4to, 1869 and 1871, small 8vo and 4to (4)

***The first volume of Merry and Wise has William H.G. Kingston's "Adrift in a Boat" serialised in the twelve issues. Other contributors include Louisa M. Alcott..