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1878. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1878. Folio. Full page plates with tissue guards, plus title vignette and other decorations. Original burgundy cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, green coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Scattered foxing, backstrip faded. Ex-library copy with shelf mark in white pen on backstrip, bookplate on front pastedown, blind-stamp on title, and library pocket on rear pastedown. Letter presenting the book to the library tipped to front free endpaper. § First American edition. (First London edition was 1875.) A respectable ex-library copy (properly released) of an uncommon book very hard to find in good condition.