First edition, the author's own copy, with his annotations. Three volumes. Bound in the publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt decoration to the covers, lettered in gilt. With a manuscript note by the author explaining the genesis of the book and holograph corrections throughout.
 
A very good set. The extremities of the binding is slightly rubbed. Spines cocked.
 
PROVENANCE: Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell of Monreith, 7th Bart. (1845–1937), his bookplate pasted to pastedown.