First edition. 2 volumes. Frontispiece to each volume, 15 full page illustrations, 2 folding plans, 1 folding colour map and a few in-text illustrations. 8vo. Publisher’s pictorial cloth, lettered in gilt. Covers with light wear, foxing to fore-edge, inner joints cracking. Bookplate to upper pastedown and former owner’s signature to ffep, both vols. xvi, 356 [i]; vi, [ii], 398, [i]pp. Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1882.
Ashbee p. 14: “This is a well-written book.”
