3 volumes, 12mo, FIRST EDITION, without half-titles and advertisements, with publisher's advertisements on verso of the final leaf of text in volume 3, nineteenth-century half calf with new endpapers, spines with six compartments with red morocco labels lettered in gilt, edges of binding and spine rubbed, covers worn, some slight spotting to text

Charlotte Sophia Fitzalan-Howard (née Leveson-Gower), Duchess of Norfolk (c.1788–1870), armorial bookplates

Garside and Schöwerling 1816:16; Gilson A8; Keynes 8; Sadleir 62d

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing where appropriate
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First edition of one of the greatest of all English novels.