Octavo, 48 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in original publisher's binding: red cloth with Eastlake-style pattern in black and gilt and a full-color pictorial onlay of a duck in a top hat and coat. Rebacked in half red leather with original large spine label preserved. Pink endpapers. Half titles present for each part. Gift inscriptions and cards to front pastedown and free blank page. Leaves printed on one side only, with printed sides facing each other. Mild foxing and fingerprint smudges to text block. Sixteen pages with some level of repair. With forty-eight two-thirds page color illustrations, most of which are signed "Cogger, sc.," but three of which are signed "John Karst"; the illustration of Dr. Drake on the upper board is signed "Wevil." Colors extremely bright. Advertised in McLoughlin's catalogue for 1876-77. Extremely scarce. Shelved in Case 14.