first edition
[1858] · Philadelphia
by [LEWIS] "Madison Tensas" and "Solitaire" [pseuds. Henry Clay Lewis and John S. Robb]; F.O.C. Darley, illus
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson and Brothers, [1858]. First Thus. Two volumes in one; octavo (19cm.); publisher's dark brown blind-lettered and -ruled cloth, gilt-embossed spine, yellow endpapers; [2],302,[1],x,187,[1],4pp.; frontispiece and added pictorial title page plus twelve leaves of unnumbered plates after illustrations by F.O.C. Darley. Boards a bit scuffed wtih exposure at corners and crown; spine cloth slightly faded, else Very Good and internally sound. Upper cover blind-lettered within lozenge "Peterson's Illustrated Uniform Edition of Humorous American Works." First combined edition of Lewis's "Odd Leaves of a Louisiana Swamp-Doctor" and Robb's "Streaks of a Squatter Life" published from remaindered leaves of both titles. See Wright I 1659 for the first (1850) edition of the former and 2126 for the first (1847) edition of the latter. See also HOWES L-313 and R-335; and SABIN 94822 for this edition. (Inventory #: 46560)