[TOPFFER, Rodolphe.] The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck. London: Tilt and Bogue, [1841.] First English edition, oblong 4to (139 x 215mm.) Title, 83 lithographed plates. (Lacking first plate, 2 plates detached, some soiling, a few small tears, finger-marks.) Original brown cloth, pictorial gilt to upper cover (frayed to spine ends, extremities rubbed). Note: Swiss teacher and artist Rodolphe Topffer made comic-strip illustrations to entertain his students in the 1820’s. In 1837 he published his third book ‘Histoire de Mr. Vieux-Bois’ which was then published in 1842 in America as ‘The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck’. It’s  now considered to be one of the first comic-books published in America.     - And a further eight volumes (including Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’, published by W.P. Nimmo, [circa 1907], 12mo, and Helena Peake’s ‘The Boy’s Book of Heroes’, bound by Birdsall, [circa 1895], 8vo) (9).