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COSWAY STYLE BINDING] TWAIN, MARK (=CLEMENS, SAMUEL). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. First English edition, preceding the American. Finely bound in a Cosway style binding by Bayntun (Riviere) in full red morocco, the upper cover with a painted miniature vignette depicting Huck with a rifle holding up a prize after E.W. Kemble, the spine tooled and lettered in gilt with raised bands, white silk doublures and endleaves, all edges gilt, the orignal cloth covers and spine bound in. 7 x 5 inches (18.5 x 13 cm); in text illustrations by E.W. Kemble, 438 pp., 32 pp. publisher's catalogue dated October 1884 (first state). One slight nick at upper joint, otherwise a fine example. C