8vo in a contemporary red full morocoo mirror binding. Boards with broad gilt borders framed with gilt lines and a blind pressed border of flowers. Spine with gilt ornamented bands and gilt decorations in every compartment. Inner gilt dentells. Binding mildly faded. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece and 24 half page engravings. Offsetting from the frontispiece, else a clean copy. Frontisp. , VI, III, 482 p. + engravings.