New York: Charles Scribner, 1851. First edition, first printing (BAL 13931, tentative binding B). Original slate-green cloth, gilt lettered, decorated in gilt and blind, top edge gilt, 286 pp., a leaf of ads. A presentation copy, to an illegible recipient "with the author's great regards," dated 1852. This title followed about nine months after the famously popular "Reveries of a Bachelor", 1850. Chipped at spine ends, spine sunned, upper tips rubbed through, slightly cocked, dust soiling. A Good copy.