Random page numbering throughout, some fold-out family trees. Red cloth-covered boards; gilt coat-of-arms on front, gilt titles on spine; text block edges gilt. 4to. . Sun-faded spine, significant wear and rubbing to boards and spine ends. Gilt fading from top text block edge, Endpapers appear to have been replaced. One fold-out loosely laid-in, another fold out quite badly torn (see pictures). Page margins tanning. Otherwise, internally neat, clean and tight.
Sir John Bernard Burke,(1814-1892) was a genealogist who assisted in the foundation and publication of Burke's Peerage.