First edition. 8vo. Publisher’s blind embossed gilt cloth, neatly recased with repairs to the backstrip. Covers with wear to edges and a few small wormholes, marginal wormholes to first and last few pages, not affecting text. Bookplate to upper pastedown and former owner’s signatures to ffep and title page. xvi, 270, [x publisher’s advertisements] pp. London, Trübner & Co, 1878.
Author’s presentation copy, with an autograph inscription dated 23 Nov. 1878 to half title.
Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 228.
