First edition. With 22 fine tinted lithographic plates (including frontispiece and supplementary title page), with 37 wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Folio. Later half red calf with marbled paper boards, the spine faded and the leather a little scuffed and rubbed. A little light spotting, confined to versos or margins of some plates, half title repaired along fore edge, paper stock a bit browned. Former owner’s inscription to half title, dated 1886. Very good overall. vi, 232pp. London, Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1848.
