Added chromolithographed decorative t.p.

T.p. and text printed within rusticated rule-border printed in blue-grey.

Includes wood-engraved decorative and illustrated initials.

Steel-engraved illustrations include etching.

Steel-engravers include J. Outrim, A. Fox, C. E. Wagstaff, T. Hollis, L. Stocks, S. Sangster, G. A. Periam, H. C. Shenton, M. I. Danforth, J. Stephenson, W. Greatbach, P. Lightfoot, H. Cook, C. Rolls, J. Hinchliffe, E. Wrankmore, W. Miller, E. J. Portbury, John H. Robinson and H. Robinson.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1-4] at end.

Illustrations are by E. Landells, R. Westall, F. P. Stephanoff, B. R. Faulkner, W. Pascoe, T. Creswick, S. Williams, W. B. Scott, F. Rochard, J. Wood, T. Uwins, C. Redding, T. Dodd, Gainsborough, W. Collins, J. Franklin, A. Cooper, F. Stone, G. S. Newton, Wright of Derby, C. R. Leslie, J. G. Middleton, J. M. Wright, Sir F. Chantrey, J. M. W. Turner, J. Holmes, H. G. Hine, A. Nicholl, W. Owen and A. E. Chalon.

Most wood-engraved illustrations within the text are unsigned. One or two each are signed as engraved by E. Evans, J. Wakefield, Joseph Williams, J. Jackson, J. Bastin and Landells. A few artist's signatures include G. F. Sargent, J. Franklin and H. G. Hine.

MASS copy: Bound in pastel blue fine diaper-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind; a.e.g. Upper and lower cover with central oval white paper onlay printed with a hand-coloured lithographed illustration of a floral bouquet. Paper onlays blocked in gold with a decorative border. Spine with imprint: "J. How London". With pastel pink painted endpapers. With bookseller's label: "Sold by H. S. Cott, 11, English Street, Carlisle".