1st edition. 8vo. Original cloth, soiled and stained, with Guernsey Guille-Ailles Library label on upper board. Fore-corners worn, spine frayed and chipped at extremities. Foxing to preliminary and last leaves. Interior very good otherwise. 457pp. 2pp. ads. Smith, Taylor & Co. Bombay, 1855.
Ink inscription of the front free endpaper from the Court of Directors of the East India Company presenting the book to the Library of the Mechanics’ Institution & Literary Society of Guernsey. Withdrawn stamp also on free endpaper and label of the Guille-Alles Library on front pastedown endpaper.