Spine faded, some wear to extremities, boards rubbed; several leaves at the front and rear mounted on stubs, some faint staining throughout, largely confined to the margins but into plate mark or engraving in a few instances; first title page trimmed and mounted on a later sheet (some loss of to the left side of the engraving), plate 31 in the First Book mounted on a stub and possibly provided from another copy; title leaf, text pages and plates 1 through 35 of the Second Book with paper restoration to lower corner (not affecting text or illustrations); final text leaf of the Fourth Book stub mounted and with repairs to top, bottom and inner margin (affecting a few letters at line ends), soiling in the margins of the Fourth Book, final 11 plates with repaired tears and chips in margins; about very good.