Complete in two volumes. A revised edition (first edition was 1849). xii, 536; [2], 562pp, Both volumes uniformly bound in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Brown endpapers. 8vos. Cloth on both volumes is worn and marked, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, a little rubbed around dry and slightly faded spines. Upper text block edges dust darkened, remaining edges spotted. Both volumes have small accession labels on the front paste down and a scattering of institutional ownership stamps on prelims: ex reference library copies. Endpapers are mottled and faded around margins with some marks and uneven wear; with three of the four hinges cracked. Some scattered spotting on the first and last few pages in each volume else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Volume I is a little cocked.
