8vo. Half-title, color frontispiece and numerous color plates. (Marginal chip to E[7], slight toning to edges). Original grey pictorial cloth stamped in white and black, spine gilt-lettered (slight wear to extremities and lower left front cover image).

FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION, with the title-leaf a cancel printed on laid paper, identified by BAL and Woodridge as the second issue, but Merle Johnson locates no copies of the presumed first issue with integral title-page. BAL 11896 [calling for cancel title-page on either laid or wove paper, no priority]; Woodbridge 46.