8vo; [i-iv] [v-x] xi-viii xix-xx, 21-256 [2], [2] (ads). The collation runs two blanks, title page, dedication, author s note, index, one blank, text. The text is followed by a blank, then an advert for Sheridan Forde s Art: a commodity . Recent quarter morocco with raised bands, on matching cloth, edges uncut. Front wrapper bound to rear. Front blanks slightly foxed, text clean, with no inscriptions or marks. The rare Antwerp publication by Forde of the work that he was to edit on behalf of Whistler, but fell out with him before completion, hence Forde s now issuing his own version independently.