Octavo, 366 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in decorated green publisher’s cloth with yellow lettering and a yellow box with black lettering to the spine. Boards show some bumping and shelf wear, including board edges and head and tail of spine. Text block shows some minor staining and foxing, ex-libris bookplate on inside front board with a name written in blue ink right above, and half title detached but present.

All common early issue points present. A full list follows:
1) Copyright notice dated 1884, title page 1885.
2) p.13: "Him and another man" listed incorrectly at p. 88.
3) p. 57: 11 up: "with the was."
4) p. 155, final 5 absent on page number.
5) p. 161, signature mark 11 absent.
6) Portrait frontispiece: cloth under bust visible; "Heliotype" imprint.
7) p. 143. "l" missing in Col. That is part of the illustration; the word “body” has a broken b (missing the top of the letter) line 7. VK Consignment. Shelved in Case 2.