Date based on form of publisher's name and address. Cf. Topp, Chester W. Victorian yellowbacks & paperbacks, Vol. I, 1993.

Publisher's advertisement on t.p. verso.

Colour wood-engraved plates are unsigned and without imprint. Some plates include hand-colouring.

One wood-engraved illustration within the text is signed "Dalziel". Others are unsigned.

Includes "Index." (p. [181]-184) and "Index to Plates." (p. [185]-186).

Includes "Index of Detail Cuts.": p. [187].

With the same setting of type, wood-engraved illustrations and plates as used in an edition of this title published in [1870] by George Routledge and Sons. See McLean D 1217. According to Ruari McLean, the colour plates in this edition were printed by Edmund Evans. Cf. his notes at Massey College Library.

Wood-engraved illustrations and plates are the same as those used (plates printed without colour) in a yellowback edition of this title published in [1870] by George Routledge and Sons. See McLean D 1218.

MASS copy: Bound in blue fine diagonal rib-grain cloth blocked in gold and black. Upper cover blocked in gold with illustration replicated from the text. Spine with imprint: "Routledge". Boards with bevelled edges. With yellow glazed endpapers. With presentation inscription dated 1889. With bookplate: "Sidney Todd".