2 volumes including supplement. Illustrated including numerous photogravure and engraved plates from photographs, drawings, paintings, etc., on mounted India paper, with printed interleaves. (folio) 15x11, ¾ red levant morocco ruled in gilt, spines tooled in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. First Editon, large paper copy.

Tribute to perhaps the most influential of all 19th century English authors, with a striking array of illustrations. Oiginally published in parts, with a front wrapper from one of the parts bound in at the end of each volume. There was another supplement, published in 1892, not present here. With the bookplates of Thomas Fleming, Jr.