London: William Pickering, 1845. First edition, 8vo., pp. lxxxii,240, full calf, with decorative gilt to spine with burgundy title label and gilt lettering and five raised bands, b/w frontispiece and marbles endpapers and edges of text block; ownership bookplate to front paste down endpaper, mottled water damage to frontispiece, rubbed to extremities with light wear to head of spine and corners, otherwise very good.