Jerrold (Douglas) Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures, first illustrated edition, chromolithographed frontispiece (lightly foxed), title in red and black, wood-engraved illustrations by Charles Keene, advertisement leaf at end, lacking half-title, frontispiece foxed, front hinge repaired, original pictorial red morocco stamped in gilt and blind, designed by John Leighton, g.e., bookseller's ticket of W.E.Franklin of Newcastle on Tyne, 1866; The Story of a Feather, title in red and black, wood-engraved plates and illustrations by George du Maurier, 3pp. advertisements at end, original pictorial cloth, gilt, after Leighton, g.e., a little rubbed and faded, gouge to upper cover, 1867, both from the collection of Victorian illustrated books of A.D.Estill with his book-label, the second preserved in his cloth drop-back box, small 4to (2)
⁂ These companion volumes represent their illustrators at their best.
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