[ Printed item. ] Tales from "Bentley." Vol. I. [ Including contributions by Thomas Love Peacock; William Macginn; Mrs Trollope; Edward Mayhew ]

[4] + [288]pp. [paginated 1-96 three times]. In original brown cloth binding, with decorative design in black on front board. A fair copy, internally tight, on aged paper, in worn and faded binding. An initial 'Advertisement' reads: 'It is well known that stories by some of the most eminent writers have appeared from time to time in "Bentley's Miscellany." It is here proposed to republish the best of them in a collected form. | London, August, 1859.' Thirteen contributions in prose and verse, from, first, the named authors W. H. Maxwell (2), 'T. C. D.' [William Macginn, 'The Two Butlers of Kilkenny'], 'Dalton', 'L.', Edward Mayhew, G. E. Inman, Mrs. Trollope ('The Patron King'), P. McTeague, J. A. Wade, and second, anonymous authors Richard Thomson, Edward Howard, Thomas Love Peacock ('Recollections of Childhood'). Now scarce.