Published by the author, 1855, 'rewritten and revised', engraved title, [xvi], 259 pages, variant with list of plates extended to four pages with reviews, engraved frontis (hand-coloured), twenty plates (seventeen hand-coloured), marbled endpapers, morocco gilt. Previous owner's name to verso of front endpaper, a liitle age tanning to page edges, faint pencil scribble to reverse of plain plates, fore-edge a little uneven.