FINE BINDING. Reprint of 1890 edition. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.2 inches). Xii, 510pp. Engraved portrait frontis with plain tissue guard. Finely bound by Bickers and Son of Leicester in early full red crushed morocco leather. The spine with five raised bands, each with five gilt dots. Compartments with gilt floral decoration, wavy line borders and lettered in gilt. Boards with decorative floral and ruled lines borders in gilt. Gilt ruled line to board edges. Decorative gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Attractive armorial bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. All edges gilt. A fine copy in a fine, attractive early twentieth century leather binding.