2 volumes. xvii, 224; [2], 225-524 pp. Extra Illustrated, with 116 engraved plates (1 folding), including 12 hand-colored, plus extra printed titles (dated 1895), mostly steel and copper-engraved. 8vo. Period half brown levant morocco and marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, housed in a custom brown cloth slipcase. First Edition.

Some of the portrait plates include: Queen Elizabeth, Henry IV, Charles I, Thomas Lord Fairfax, John Milton, plus other significant people of the period. Each with color armorial bookplate of Vincent Lloyd-Russell.