Hardback. With 21 colour chromolithographs and 351 wood engravings. Quarter bound in leather with elaborately decorated cloth to boards. Large format: 275 by 185mm (10¾ by 7¼ inches). Some rubbing to edges. Head of spine is a little ragged. Boards are a little darkened to edges. Gilt is bright. Some slight tanning and dustiness to very edges of page margins. Colour plates with tissue guards are clean and bright. Slight foxing to prelims. A neat, tight copy.