IRVING Washington, “LIFE OF MAHOMET”, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850. Small 8vo, pp. viii, 224. Small octavo. Contemporary half leather, blind-stamped, spine with decorations in gilt. Light rubbing of covers and edges, spotting of the first sheets. Ex-libris label on pastedown. Engraved frontispiece. One of several competing London printings, both authorized and unauthorized, of the biographical component of the two-volume work published in New York in December 1849.