First edition, 4to. (305x220x40mm), elaborately decorated bevelled boards in gilt and red, spine decorated similarly, a.e.g., chromolithographed half title & title, introduction with decorated borders 96pp., list of plates 8pp., 99 chromolithograph plates mostly in colour, publisher's device at end, chromolithographed, lacks rear flyleaf, good. The plates consist of borders, initial letters and alphabets. Day & Son were Lithographers to the Queen.