Date taken from dated preface.

Most chromolithographed plates are with signature: "Th. Schüz". All are with imprint: "Lith. Unst. v. M. Seeger. Stuttgart.". Plates are with title captions.

MASS copy: Bound in red fine diagonal rib-grain cloth blocked in gold, blind, black, blue, white, green, red, brown and yellow; a.e. marbled. Upper cover blocked with titling and illustration replicated from the text. Spine blocked in gold and black and lower cover blocked in blind. Spine with imprint: "Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft. Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig". Endpapers with all-over floral pattern printed in grey. Binding design is similar to that used for McLean D 1199.