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Includes "List of Illustrations. Engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans.": p. [ix].
Includes "Translator's preface.": p. [xi]-xiii and "Extracts from the author's preface.": p. [xiv]-xvi.
Wood-engraved plates are unsigned.
Includes "Index.": p. [229]-237.
Plates I, VII and XVIII are with the same imagery as plates [2-4] in an 1857 edition and in a "Second edition" of this title issued in 1858, both published by G. Routledge & Co. See McLean D 0187 and McLean D 0188.
With the same wood-engraved plates (with some slight differences in colours and letterpress captions) as used in a "New edition" of this title published in 1861 by Routledge, Warne, and Routledge. See McLean D 0190.
MASS copy 1: Bound in bright blue bead-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind. Upper cover with red paper onlay. With ownership inscription dated 1861: "H. N. Foley.". With binder's ticket: "Bound by Burn 37 & 38 Kirby St.".
MASS copy 2: Bound in navy blue bead-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind in the same design and with the same red paper onlay as copy 1. Spine re-backed.
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