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Item Description

First Edition. Folio. 11.5 x 9 inches, vi + 244 pp. with 14 illustrations full page plates and illustrations in the text. Bound in original Brown cloth gilt, slightly worn on extremities, and some light foxing to the preliminary leaves, including frontis, but a very good copy of a work which is prone to foxing, often much worse than this example The frontispiece and bottom of the title page has been skilfully repaired in the margin. Very scarce, scholarly history. The subscribers list numbers 74 copies and it seems likely that no more than 100 or so were printed.