Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co./London: Bell & Daldy, 1858. First edition, scarce, 12mo., pp.(iii),40, calf-backed marbled boards, gilt; some foxing throughout, a very good, clean copy in fine modern binding.

London: James, John and Paul Knapton. First edition, includes half title, 4to., pp.(x),320, full pannelled calf, five raised bands; lacks title label, wear to calf, including loss of apx. 5x6 cms to front lower LH corner, with professional reinforcement and recolouring to boards, some neat pencilled annotation within, internally very good, a good copy overall.

Paris: Parmantier, Libraire, 1825. Small 8vo., pp.viii,327, rebacked marbled calf boards, red title label and gilt embellishments to spine, engraved frontispiece and four further engraved plates; neat ink ownership inscription, dated 1826, to front free endpaper verso, light foxing within, with slight wear to headband and wear to upper corner of rear board, a very good copy.

London: L. Upcott Gill, 1894. Volumes II and III only (of three), 4to., pp.viii,621,(ii);vii,457,(iii), decorative pictorial bevelled green cloth, gilt, a.e.g., colour frontispieces, colour plates, b/w plates and figures; light foxing, superficial paper splitting to inner hinges, light rubbing to extremities, light dampstaining to boards, a very good (partial) set.

Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company (Kluwer), 1986. Reprinted, 8vo., pp.xi,268, glazed hardcover; very good indeed. No dust-jacket, as issued.

London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1757. 4to., pp.(ii),156, contemporary sprinkled calf, expertly rebacked with gilt-lettered red title label, five raised bands, and gilt decorations to compartments, later endpapers; engraved heraldic bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, wear to extremities of boards (including expert repair to front upper margin at inner corner), overall very good, and internally fairly fresh.

London: John C. Nimmo, 1887. First edition thus, 4to., pp.342, uncut, deluxe half red morocco Bickers binding, three raised bands, gilt, with pictorial gilt decoration to spine, marbled cloth boards, matching marbled endpapers, t.e.g., ribbon bookmark, b/w frontispiece and decorative title, engraved b/w plates and in-text illustrations, head- and tailpieces; heraldic bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, ex libris W.A. Foyle, with small gilt-lettered leather bookplate to front free endpaper, light foxing to prelims and fore-edges, a fine copy.

London: John W. Parker, 1839. Set of six volumes, 8vo., pp.xxxii,587;iv,588;iv,614;iv,590;iv,623;iv,569, uncut, lightly mottled half calf, five raised bands, contrasting dark green morocco labels, gilt, with gilt decorations to compartments, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., frontispiece portrait to first volume; occasional light foxing to prelims, a fine and handsomely bound copy of this scarce set, ex libris W.A. Foyle, with small gilt-lettered leather bookplate to front paste-down endpaper of all volumes. A handsome set.

London: HarperCollins. First edition, 8vo., pp.218, green cloth, gilt, 8 colour plates and over 120 b/w illustrations (photographic and drawn); a fine copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.

London: Virtue and Co, 1867. Pocket 8vo., pp.viii,204,10 (publisher’s adverts), red cloth wrappers with unlettered spine and front cover stamped in gilt and blind; crosses marked to margins, corners have been folded, marking to wrappers, with light wear to edges, darkening to cloth, a good copy.

London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1909. 8vo., pp.xx,876, green cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece, colour plates, b/w figures; ink ownership autograph (twice) and blindstamp (thrice) to prelims, toning to front endpapers, light foxing to rear endpapers and fore-edges, paper cracking to rear inner hinge (joint remains firm), rubbing to extremities, a good+ copy.

Ebury Press, 1994. Folio, pp.160, grey hardcover, gilt, colour plates and illustrations; signed by the author to front free endpaper, slight tone to fore-edges, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has crease and small closed tear to head of spine, light creasing to edges, and slight surface soil to pale paper at rear of jacket, else very good..

London: Richard Bentley, 1860. 8vo., pp.xxxii,382, half leather, gilt, marbled boards; small heraldic emblem tipped in to front free endpaper, pictorial ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to prelims, loss to upper corner of p.5, occasional pencil annotation and underlining within, rubbing to boards and extremities, especially to centre of front board, a very good copy of this scarce volume.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1948. First edition, 8vo., pp.238, blue cloth, gilt; light toning to endpapers and edges, neat ink ownership inscriptionn to front free endpaper, faint marking to front board, light sunning to spine, a very good copy.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1935. 8vo.,pp. viii,365, dark green cloth, gilt, b/w figures, b/w frontispiece; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, light toning to margins, light sunning to spine and light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1900. First edition, 8vo., pp.xviii,313, uncut and partially unopened, pictorial green cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece with tissue guard, b/w plates and figures; croquet instruction pamphlet loose inside back endpapers, spine darkened, rubbing to extremities, small tear to cloth at tail of spine, a few small marks to cloth, a good+ copy. No dust-jacket.

London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1987. 8vo., pp.vii,208, black hardcover, gilt, b/w figures; light marking to front board, a very good copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1935. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xiv,459, navy cloth, gilt, lightly toned to margins and endpapers, toned to head and foot of spine, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and toned to spine and extremities, small stain to front upper margin, worn at corners, chipping to head and foot of spine with loss to head of spine slightly obscuring title, closed tears along front and rear edge, now in a protective dust-cover, overall very good.

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1952. First editon, 8vo.,pp. 160, navy cloth, gilt; toning to endpapers, off setting to front and rear free endpapers and toning to margins, occasional light pencilling to margins, otherwise very good, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned and rubbed to spine and extremities, with wear to corners.

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1947. 8vo.,pp. xii,311, green cloth, gilt; toned to margins, pencil annotation to front free endpaper and occasionally to margins, sunning to spine and lightly rubbed to extremities, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.