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London: Chatto & Windus, 1880. First Edition. Leather bound. Fine. First UK one-volume edition, with fore-edge painting, in a custom binding, duodecimo size, 587 pp. One of America's most esteemed writers Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, created classic characters and stories that have endured for generations; his writing is characterised by his wit and humour, evident in both his fiction and nonfiction. "A Tramp Abroad" was published in 1880, about fifteen years after Twain's first published work, and is a mixture of autobiography and fictional events as the author and his companion (the Reverend Joseph Twichell, named Harris in the book) make their way across 19th-century Europe. Rife with typical Twain humor, the narrator "believe(s) that he understands all that he sees, but in reality understand(s) none of it" (n.b., above info from Wiki). This volume embellished with a fore-edge painting taken from the illustration found…