Smith USA I, 3, indicating the work was actually issued in October 1838. Overall a very decent copy of the first full American edition, hastily issued before the completion of a serialised edition which had commenced earlier in 1838. The Publisher’s Notice in Vol. I explains that due to the haste in presenting the completed work before the public, they regret ‘the illustrations by Cruikshank were not ready to accompany the manuscript from London’.