First edition. Engraved panoramic frontispiece (with marginal notes), title page vignette, two hand-coloured double page plans, 12 full page plates and several in-text illustrations. 8vo. Publisher’s gilt green cloth, spine faded and wear to extremities. Uniform browning of paper stock as usual. Former owner’s inscription to ffep. xvi, 512, [2], 8 [publisher’s advertisements] pp. London, John W. Parker, 1845.
