4 volumes, 4to. Over 300 plates, portraits, and maps (many in color). Contemporary half red morocco gilt, top edge gilt (some minor rubbing to extremities).

 

FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM of Sloane’s most popular work, “published originally in the form of a serial in the Century Magazine, beginning in November 1894, enlarged into four massive volumes in 1896…it was sumptuously illustrated and composed in a fashion to appeal to the general reader rather than the historical student (DAB).