First edition published 1833 with imprint London: F.G. Harding and t.p. verso bearing printer's name (J. & G. Adlard, Printers, Bartholomew Close); second edition published 1838 with imprint and printer's name as in first edition; third edition published 1839 with t.p. and plates bearing imprint London: Darton & Clark, Holborn Hill and with blank t.p. verso; variant issue with t.p. and plates bearing imprint London: B.B. King, Monument Yard, London. Cf. Tooley, R.V. English books with col. plates 1790-1860. Rev. ed., 1979, p. 295.

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MASS copy: Later reprint of third edition, with added t.p. bearing imprint London: Darton & Clark, Holborn Hill, with blank t.p. verso and with unsigned plates. Plates 3,4,5 out of sequence. Bound in limp brown bead-grain cloth blocked in blind with title in gold on upper cover; bookstore stamp: Winter & Son, Taunton ...