8vo. (240 x 150 mm). Five volumes. Contemporary full royal blue calf, the boards ruled in gilt and blind, the spines in six compartments with gilt-decorated raised bands, the compartments panelled with a double-gilt fillet, red-lettered and numbered labels to the second and fourth compartments, the remaining four decorated with a gilt thistle centre tool and gilt sprig corners, gilt edges, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; Vol. I: xxii, [ii], 367, [1]pp., engraved frontispiece, 13 engraved plates, 5 wood-engravings; Vol II: [viii], 414, [6]pp., engraved frontispiece, 16 engraved plates, 19 wood-engravings; Vol. III: [viii], 312, [8]pp., engraved frontispiece, 16 engraved plates, 35 wood-engravings; Vol. IV: xxv, [iii], 326, [6]pp., engraved frontispiece, 15 engraved plates, 16 wood-engravings; Vol V: [viii], viii, 382, [2]pp., engraved frontispiece, 15 engraved plates, 10 wood-engravings; all engraved plates printed on India paper and mounted at large; very slight rubbing to the spines and corners, some light spotting to the margins of the plates, otherwise a very good set.

Provenance: T[homas]. D[avison]. Bland Esquire. Kippax Park, Castleford, Yorkshire, with his nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate to the front pastedowns.

Stock number: 1418