£120
FIRST EDITION, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. [ii], iv, 297, [1]; iv, 289, [3]. Original purple cloth, red morocco labels to spines. A little scattered spotting. Stitching a little strained in places, bindings unevenly sunned to brown, rear joints splitting but hinges firm. Booklabels of William Smith, Canterbury, to pastedowns, a few scattered underlinings in text.
One in a series of literary and historical works produced by Chambers in an extraordinarily productive period of his life, following his two volume History of the Rebellion in Scotland in 1830-31 and in the same year as his Life of Sir Walter Scott and the launch of the landmark Chambers's Edinburgh Journal. With 2 pages advertising Bentley's Standard Novels series to rear of volume 2, including number 9, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
