1856. New edition, revised. 296 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound red leather with marbled paper covered boards and gilt lettering to spine. Black and white illustration plates. Marbled endpapers. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge, but binding remains firm, although page 31 detached. Boards have heavy wear with bumped and abraded corners. Spine ends similarly worn and spine itself strongly scuffed. Gilt dulled. Board surfaces stained and rubbed.