First edition. Three volumes. Octavo. Bound in the publisher’s original gift binding of gilt-decorated morocco spines, with tortoiseshell covers, elaborately lettered and decorated gilt. All edges gilt.
 
A near fine set, quite exceptional examples. To the front pastedown of the second volume is an illuminated label, gifting the book in June 1875 to an M.J. McCrea on the occasion of her marriage to Isaac Connor.