First edition, with a coloured frontispiece, and over 300 other illustrations (both full page and in the text). Large 8vo. Publisher’s decorative and pictorial red cloth; rebacked with the original backstrip laid down and new end papers, corners bumped, otherwise good. Interior clean and fresh. Blindstamp of the Royal Institution of Great Britain to title-page. Engraved bookplate of John Brinton to front pastedown. xlviii, 329pp. London, Trubner and Co., 1882.
