London: Elkin Matthews, 1896. First edition, scarce, 8vo., 20pp. of advertisements to rear of volume, text and pictures unpaginated, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece, pictorial title page; pictorial blue cloth, image to front board blocked in cream and black with black lettering, lettered in black to spine; ownership autograph written within the Gaskin illustrated pictorial ex-libris printed onto paste-down endpaper, webbing visible to inner hinge of front and rear where endpapers have slightly come away, fragile but all contents firm, rubbing to extremities of boards, cloth slightly faded and toned, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.