Verlag: Virtue and Co., London
Anbieter: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, Neuseeland
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Front board detached (hanging on by cloth of inner hinge). Internally good. Scattered foxing to plates, mainly to blank margins. Tissue guards present to plates. ; No date (c. 1880's). NB: Volume 4 only of a 4 volume set. vi, 396 pages + frontis + extra illustrated title page + plates (steel engravings). Half -leather binding. All page edges gilt. Dimensions: 12 3/8" by 9 3/4".; 4to.
Verlag: London: Virtue & co, nd [c. 1870]., 1870
Anbieter: Cornell Books Limited, Tewkesbury, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Second edition, complete in four volumes bound in two (hardbacks). 4to (31cm by 26cm), vii, 391pp; v, 390pp; v, 392pp; vi, 396pp. 79 steel-engraved plates, including 3 coloured maps (correct as per lists), 75 wood-engraved text illustrations. Contemporary full brown morocco, gilt spines, gilt borders to the boards, all edges gilt. The bindings have been rebacked retaining the original spines, but the the addition of strips of leather to the joints (of a similar colour to the original binding). The bindings are a little rubbed. The contents are generally in very good condition, with some minor faults (creasing and foxing to the endpapers, tear to pp 179/180 in volume 2, stains to the margins of the three of the plates in volume 2). Overall, this set is in good condition.