First edition. Five volumes. Bound in half contemporary brown calf over marbled boards. Red morocco label to spine, five raised bands, lettered in gilt. Speckled edges.
 
Forty-seven plates throughout, all containing a frontispiece with volume four having a folding map as the frontispiece. Eight folding maps.
 
A very handsome set. Some minor tears to maps, some offsetting and spotting. Some cracks in the binding, hinges worn but holding.
 
PROVENANCE: Sir William Maxwell of Monreith, 4th Bart. (1750-1812), his bookplate to front pastedown.