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Very good except for the 2 missing plates. 1st Edition. Contemporary half brown leather over marbled boards, gilt spine decorations. 8vo., 16..5×10.5 cm. Volume one lacks plates number 6 and 11. Some staining to plate 15. weight: 1.3 lb. W.H. Lizars, and Stirling and Kenny. Edinburgh. 1833. 1-6, iii. 7-147: iv, 3, [1], 156 pp. 2 portrait frontispieces, 62 (of 64) hand-colored plates, color vignettes on half-title pages.







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