First English edition. Octavo. 493pp. Half calf, marbled boards. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt rules, leather label. All edges marbled. Neat signature (M.C.E.S. Douglas) to upper edge of first blank. Shelf wear to extremities and boards. Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821-1891) historian and writer. Russell Martineau(1831–1898), Linguist, translator and librarian of Early Printed Books at the British Museum. The eldest son of James Martineau. “The entrepôt of all the surrounding nations of the continent”