First edition, later issue (as is common with copies in publisher's bindings). Octavo. Bound in the publisher’s deluxe binding of full plum morocco, lettered gilt to spine. All edges gilt.
 
Engraved frontispiece, title page and forty-one further engraved plates.
 
A very good copy, the spine neatly rebacked and relaid.
 
PROVENANCE: Armorial bookplate of Edwin Ludlow Rich (1793-1869) to front pastedown.