8vo. In three volumes. [5], viii-x, 307, [1]; [2], 306; [2], 312pp. Without half-titles. Bound by Smyth & Co. of Liverpool in contemporary green half-calf, marbled boards, tooled and lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Armorial bookplates of William S. Bird to all FEPs, recent bookplates of Robert J. Hayhurst to all FFEPs, scattered foxing.

The first edition of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton's (1803-1873) triple-decker novel, replete with the romantic adventures and philosophical disquisitions that characterise his fiction. A sequel, Alice, or, The Mysteries, appeared the following year.