xix, [1], 308 pp. Extra Illustrated, with 17 plates bound in or mounted on bound in leaves, from various sources, including steel, copper and wood engravings, etc., mostly portraits, including frontispiece portrait lithographed from a pencil drawing by Seymour Kirkup; plus two original pencil drawings by Severn, both signed with his initials following pages 152 and 272. Also, 2 folding facsimile autograph letters. 9x6¼, bound in period half brown morocco and peach-tan mottled paper over boards, ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, mottled paper endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. First Edition, Extra Illustrated issue.

Handsome “extra illustrated” volume, bound in leather and with two original pencil studies drawn by Joseph Severn, himself.