428pp, with 488 illustrations in text. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt and blind embossed decorations, gilt titles on the spine. Brown endpapers. 8vo. Cloth is lightly worn, rubbed on edges and around a sunned and bruised spine. Unevenly faded. Text block edges dull and toned. Partial cracking to front hinge. Previous owner's inscription on first black leaf else internally neat, clean and tight.
