First edition. Octavo, pp., xix, [1], 725, [1], plus errata slip, and 456 illustrations within text. Publisher’s wine-coloured buckram over crimson goatskin back; titled in gilt to spine; gilt vignette of a Byzantine coin ...

Quarto, pp., xi, [1], 734, plus 855 black-and-white photographs within text. Publisher’s brown buckram; titled in gilt to spine; top edge gilt; white end-papers. Contemporary armorial bookplate of Francis Saxham Elwes Drury to front ...

First printings of this paperback edition, with the number line ‘1’. 16 volumes. Octavo. Uniform publisher’s photographic paper wraps by Webb & Webb. Light corner creases to lower cover of three volumes only; a bright, fresh set, seemingly unread. Near-fine.

Second edition, [sixth impression?], after the first of 1887. Crown octavo, pp., [i]-xx, [1]-224, 12 of publisher’s advertisements. With frontispiece, fourteen illustrated words (one for each chapter), eleven full page illustrations within ...

First Editions, large octavo, pp., 411; pp., 381; pp., 551; pp., 652; pp., 705; pp., 736. Publisher’s navy blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, in cream unclipped dust-jackets, based on designs by Vanessa ...

First Pan Edition. Octavo, pp., 204 [4 - catalogue]. Publisher’s pictorial soft-cover. Creasing to spine and lower cover, lightly toned throughout.

Fifth Impression. Small Octavo, pp., 256. Publisher’s iconic green soft-cover. Minor creasing and toning to spine. Text-block lightly toned.

Eighteenth Impression. Small Octavo, pp., 192. Publisher’s iconic green soft-cover. Minor creasing to spine. Text-block lightly toned.

First Edition, first Impression. Octavo, pp. 251, [5]. Publishers’ pictorial paper-covered boards with illustration by Cliff Wright, in the matching unclipped first state pictorial dust-jacket (without the comma’s after the children’s names to ...

First Penguin Edition. Small Octavo, pp., 288. Publisher’s iconic green soft-cover in matching dust-jacket. Some cracking to spine with loss and minor tearing to dust-jacket spine and folds. Missing rear flap. A very good ...

First edition. Quarto, pp. xii, 454. Illustrated throughout with diagrams, plans, maps, sections, sketches and photographs, many of which are in colour. Publisher’s photographic soft-cover with titles in white to upper cover and spine ...

Landscape folio, pp., 105, [1], printed on one side of the leaf only, including 34 full-page photographs printed in violet-tinted sepia, presentation leaf to front, as called for. Publisher’s straight-grain leather; titled in gilt ...