1878. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Decorated blue cloth. French text. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Three books bound together, each paginated separately. Pages and plates are moderately tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Heavy cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Some rubbed dark marking to pages. Cracking to hinges with exposed binding. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with heavy splits and fraying to cloth. Notable tanning to spine and edges. Scuffing and dark marking overall. Mild splits to joints. Book is notably forward leaning.