Combination of 1st and 2nd editions. 8 vols in 9. 8vo., pp. xvi, 408 + 6 plates + colour frontispiece; xvi, 409-934 + 4 plates; xix, [v], 672, 8 + 6 plates + colour frontis; xxvi, [ii], 653, [I] + 7 plates + frontis; xxiii, [I], 711, [I], 8 +13 plates + frontis; xxi, [I], 484 + 6 plates + frontis; xvii, [iii], 635, [i], 8 + 3 plates + frontis; xvii, [iii], 397, [i], + 2 plates + frontis; xi, [i], 331, [i] + 2 plates + frontis (all plates as called for). A little foxing to vols. I and II, otherwise very clean. Many edges uncut. Brown publisher’s cloth, gilt spines, black endpapers apart from vols. VII and VIII, purplish-brown cloth with cream endpapers. Very good. Ownership inscription of Arthur H. May(?), Aldershot 12th Sept. 1958 to ffep of vols. VII and VIII.