Kidnapped, Being Memoirs of the Adventures Of David Balfour in the Year 1751

London: Cassell & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1891. Hardcover. Rubbing and slight fraying to cloth at ends of spine and at tips of corners of boards. Gutters broken at hinges. Some tears along folds of folding map. ; "Twenty-eighth Thousand". vi, [2], 311 pages + folding map frontispiece + 16 plates + [1], [16] pages advertisements. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Red circle and gilt rule on front board. Page dimensions: 182mm x 120mm. "I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house. The sun began to shine upon the summit of the hills as I went down the road; and by the time I had come as far as the manse, the blackbirds were whistling in the garden lilacs, and the mist that hung around the valley in the time of the dawn was beginning to arise and die away." - the opening paragraph. .