New edition illustrated with a portrait of the author as frontispiece. Full glazed caramel calf binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt tools, fillets and stamps, gilt friezes at head and foot, gilt roulettes on headcaps, a small harmless hole at foot of one joint, covers framed with a gilt fillet and blind tooled border, gilt edges on leading edges, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary bindings. Some minor foxing. Handsome copy in an attractive contemporary binding.