first edition
1828 · London
by [Morier, James Justinian]
London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1828. First edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, pp. xxxii, 306, [2]; [4], 352; half-title in volume II only, per Sadleir; original brown paper-covered boards, brown paper shelfback, printed paper labels on spine; front hinge cracked at the title page in volume I; all else generally very good. At the top left corner on outside of front board is a bright green octagonal bookseller’s ticket: "Sold by / Hodges & Smith / Bookellers & stationers /No. 21 College green, / Dublin." Morier (1780-1849) was a diplomat and a writer. "His fame depends on The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan (1824), a picaresque romance of Persian (truncated)