Description
4 vols., 4to, pp. xxviii, xxvi, 468; vi, xxvii-liv, [iii], 470-931,[1]; [vii], lvi-lxxxii, [v], 936-1409, [1]; [vi], lxxxiii-cvi, [vii], 1412-1906 + 3 frontispieces, one of which folding, and 29 plates, most colour. Numerous other illustrations included within pagination, many full-page. Partially-unopened in contemporary tree calf by Henderson and Bisset, boards bordered with gilt rolls, spines divided by raised bands gilt, red and green morocco labels, other compartments tooled in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Spotting to textblock edges. A little sunned to top edge of one board. Original red wrappers printed in black bound to rear of each volume.
