Printed for the author by Wyman & Sons, London, 1873, 1st edition. Brown, patterned cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and front board, no dustwrapper. Bevelled edges. 11ins x 9ins, xi, (i), 379pp plus tissue guarded frontis portrait and 12 tissue guarded contemporary photographic illustrations (on 9pp). Occasional light foxing to margins. Two bookplates and a signature to the front endpapers. Bottom corners badly worn but overall a VG copy.