4, x, [2], 131 pp. + plates. Extra Illustrated, with 58 engraved plates (3 are folding and 1 double-page), mostly steel and copper. Also, a four page “A Classified List of the Literary Works of John Britton” and a four page “Wiltshire Topographical Society, Officers…June 1846,” both bound in (one leaf with added paper margins). 11x8½, later half red morocco and marble-patterned red cloth, spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. First Edition.

Two 4-page autograph letters signed by Edward Wilton from 1862, tipped-in together on front preliminary leaf; a 4-page autograph letter signed by Henry, Marquess of Lansdowne (whom the book is dedicated to), to John Britton, and a 2-page autograph letter signed by John Britton on a printed prospectus leaf for this title appears. Color armorial bookplate.