1808. No dust jacket. Black leather with gilt lettering and decoration. Contains black and white plates. Vol. I only, made up of 6 parts. All have separate title pages, with separate pagination and dates, 1807 and 1808. Cracks to hinges with some binding thread exposed. Moderate tanning to pages throughout with frequent prominent foxing and thumb marking present. Some water marking to rear pastedown. Small chips to edges of pages 3-6. Some heavy staining to gutters throughout, with some occasional marks to pages. Noticeable staining to page 63-65 of part 1, and page 43 of part 5. Text is still legible. Boards have moderate shelf wear with rubbing to edges and heavy corner bumping. Some light marking to surfaces and prominent scuffing to edges. Leather is peeling to rear board with chips and splits to joints. Scuffs to leather on front board. Crack to lower half of leather spine.