xxiv, 246, [2] & 16 ad pp. Extra Illustrated, with 129 engraved plates (4 are double-page and 1 folding), including frontispiece, mostly portraits and views, steel, copper and lithographed (2 photographic from an engraving and a painting), bound in or mounted on bound in leaves; plus pictorial title page and other wood engravings within the text (some full-page); ads in the back. 8½x6½, late nineteenth century half brown morocco and marbled boards, ruled in gilt, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. First Edition.