8vo. (Title-page with a few short tears and fully laid-down.) Later cloth-backed black boards (lightly rubbed). 

THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD BURTON, sometimes attributed to Alfred Bate Richards, a close friend of Burton's when he was at Oxford.  Penzer describes this edition as "very rare;" it was reprinted in 1886. According to Penzer, the work "forms most interesting and amusing reading....It also shows him in the light in which we love him best." Penzer pp.304-305. 

[Laid in:] BURTON. Autograph letter signed ("R. F. Burton"), to Mr. Hitcuti[?]. Trieste, 13 May 1886. 2 pages, 12mo. In part: "Yours of May 7 received yesterday -- we have been on a visit to the [?]. Came back and found Egypt had been idle. I cannot decide about Egyptist till we meet the [?] F. N."