London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1903. In eight volumes. First edition. 8vo. Extra-illustrated with numerous tipped-in plates and original letters, including from Gladstone, J.S. Mill, Jeremy Bentham, Benjamin Disraeli, T.H. Huxley, and many others (a previous collator notes, "the insertion of 427 portraits, views, original letters, etc"). Full blue crushed levant, decoratively stamped in gilt, small chip in headcap of first volume; dentelles elaborately stamepd in gilt; top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed; purple endpapers; by Morrell. Scattered dampstaining to plates and letters; scattered minor foxing to text. A handsome set.