London: Knight and Lacey. 8vo., pp.vii,454, recent brown calf spine, gilt, over brown paper-covered boards, new endpapers with brown linen tape reinforcement to inner hinges, wood engraved frontispiece showing Mr. Peter Nicholson, b/w figures to text; bookseller’s pictorial label to front paste-down endpaper, foxing and occasional soiling to contents, rubbing to extremities of boards, overall a very good copy in a rather rudimentary binding