First British edition, first printing London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. First British edition, preceding the first American edition by approximately three months. xvi, 438, [2], 32 pp., publisher's catalogue at rear dated October 1884. Bound in publisher's cherry red cloth with pictorial stamping in black and lettering in gilt, botanical endpapers. Near Fine with light wear and soiling to cloth, sunning to spine and shallow chipping at tail, and small bumps to lower corners. Hinges tender, bookseller ticket to front pastedown, trace bookseller inscriptions to front free endpaper verso and half-title page. Binding starting at p. 129. Author: Twain, Mark,Country of Origin: United States of America,Publisher: Chatto & Windus,Year Printed: 1884,Special Attributes: 1st Edition,Binding: Hardcover,Original/Facsimile: Original