First editions, first printings. Deluxe editions, limited to just 50 copies. Original full brown leather with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrappers. Illustrated with colour and black and white plates throughout. An excellent fine set, the bindings square and firm, the contents clean and bright throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the original very lightly rubbed dustwrappers, housed in their original card slipcases. Loosely laid into volume II is the original prospectus for this volume. A stellar set.
The deluxe issue, limited to only 50 copies of which volume I is numbered 22 (XXII) and vols II-IV 44 (XLIV) are printed on special paper and bound in full leather; the regular issues, bound in cloth were limited to 1100 copies. An important reference work, offered here in its most desirable issue.
Stock code: 22757
£4,750