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Blackwood's Magazine (editors). TALES FROM "BLACKWOOD" ... VOL. II. ... [FIRST SERIES]. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, n.d. [1858]. Small octavo, pp. [1-2] [1] 2-102 [1] 2-112 [1] 2-98 [1]-4: ads. publisher's decorated light brown cloth, all panels stamped in black. First edition, book issue, first binding. Volume two of the twelve volumes comprising the first series, published quarterly from 1858 to 1861 -- each bound volume containing three of the monthly issues. "The schedule of authors is an impressive one; and a series, one volume of which is the first book edition of Bulwer Lytton's "Haunted and the Haunters," while others claim similar rank in the bibliographies of Charles Lever, Anthony Trollope, William Maginn, J. G. Lockhart and Mrs. Oliphant, deserves its place in any collection of front-rank Victorian 'firsts' ... The material here collected appeared in 'Maga' between 1821 and 1859." - Sadleir II, p. 127. Sadleir 3739a (ii). Cloth worn at spine ends, a very good copy. (#171235).

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