First Edition; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; half-leather binding over marbled boards with, to spine, five raised bands, gilt titles to red panels & extensive gilt decoration to other panels; marbled end-papers; Marbled edges (faded); inside front cover the armorial bookplate of Sir Graves Sawle, Baronet of Penrice in the County of Cornwall; frontis. illustration facing pictorial title page followed by regular title page, plus nineteen additional full-page plates scattered throughout the text; N.B. - lacking the illustration facing page 120 (Dr Finucane and the Grey Mare); Heavy foxing to the illustrated pages but text pages mostly unfoxed.