Date taken from British Library Public Catalogue.

Lithographed text is printed within decorative and illustrated borders and initials. Illustrations are unsigned.

A variant state of the edition than McLean D 0573, lacking statement of responsibility on t.p. and with some differences in colour.

McLean, Ruari. Victorian book design, p. 110.

MASS copy: Bound in purple fine morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind. Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g. With pastel yellow painted endpapers. Upper paste-down endpaper with label lithographed in red and blue: "London: Published by Day & Son. Lithographers to the Queen. 6, Gate St. Lincoln's Inn Fields and Chromolithographed at their Establishment after the Drawings by H. N. Humphreys Esqr.". With binder's ticket: "Bound by Leighton Son and Hodge."