Large 4to. Volume I: x, 240 pp, 12 steel engravings (1 frontispiece & 1 vignette), approximately 144 full & part page wood engravings, contemporary brown cloth, title gilt on front cover & spine, all edges gilt, index, cover soiled & rubbed, light damp stain to lower corner of frontispiece and title pages not affecting text or vignette, occasional light foxing, otherwise in overall good condition, J. S. Virtue & Co, London, 1880.