Two volumes, octavo, three-quarter dark green morocco with single-line gilt rules, marbled boards and endpapers; vol. I, portarit fronts., xvi, 321pp., 15 further full-page illustrations; vol. II, fronts., 321pp., 14 further full-page illustrations; top edges gilt, remainder untrimmed; volume I with preface to fifth edition. Spines tanned fairly uniformly, front board vol. I starting a little; all contents with edges browned, very minor soiling and foxing; page marker stains at two facing leaves in vol. I. Overall a sound set with Putnam's stamp at top margin of each first blank, and the stamp of The Kickerbocker Press Bindery at top margin of each final blank. 1893 is the copyright date.

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