First edition, with a tinted lithographic half-title and 39 tinted lithographic plates, sm. 4to., pp. viii, 112, xvi [publisher’s catalogue], publisher’s cloth, decorated in blind and in gilt, the cloth somewhat faded, one plate slightly frayed along the fore-edge. London, Paul and Dominic Colnaghi and Co., and Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855.
Simpson’s drawings are especially impressive with the lithography being undertaken by Day & Son, lithographers to the Queen.
