New York: J. Cummings, (1881).
Price: $500.00
Hardcover. Two volumes with continual pagination. Large octavos. xii, 829pp. Illustrated from engravings. Both volumes full dark-brown pebbled calf, boards with a decorative borders stamped in black, both volumes with the title stylized in gilt on the front boards, spines with raised bands bordered in black creating five compartments, second compartment from the top with the title in gilt, the fourth from the top with the volume in gilt, gilt turn-ins, all page edges gilt, and marbled endpapers. Spines and the edges of the boards show some wear, Volume Two with offsetting to the verso of the front free endpaper from a leaf laid in (an actual leaf from a plant, not a sheet of paper), very good or better with the gilt bright and the hinges sound. Publisher's receipt dated February 17, 1892 made out to a Ms. Bowster of New London, Connecticut laid in.
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