Publisher's device printed on t.p.

T.p. and text printed within thin black rule border.

Plates with imprint: "Marcus Ward & Co.".

Includes decorative and illustrative wood-engraved head-pieces and tail-pieces.

Halkett, Samuel and John Laing. A dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous publications in the English language, Vol. 2, p. 393.

Reid, Forrest. Illustrators of the eighteen-sixties, p. 254.

MASS copy: Bound in red-brown patterned sand-grain cloth blocked in black, gold and blind. Upper cover pasted with a rectangular paper onlay chromolithographed with part of an illustration from within the text. Boards with bevelled edges; t.e. tinted beige. With dark blue painted endpapers. Lacking front free endpaper.