An excellent copy of the 4th and Best Edition in a bespoke full leather binding with marbled edges and endpapers.Portrait frontispiece, title-vignette, 2 coloured plates, 7 fine photogravures by Emery Walker after Francis Griggs (absent from earlier editions) plus 62 engraved illustrations in the text and a folding coloured map, bound in full crushed morocco by Spottiswoode, Presentation inscription to Edmund Henry Apsley Traherne from his tutor at Eton 1914 Lyte's standard history was first published in 1875 and successively updated and re-issued in 1889 and 1899.