London.Office of The National Illustrated Library. 1852. xiv, 280, 4pp. cat'. Map proceeding page one; illustrated with wood-engravings - some full-page - throughout. Original cloth with blind-stamp decoration on boards, and gilt decoration to spine. Octavo. First edition. Contemporary ownership inscriptions to endpaper, half-title and title. Later ownership inscription to endpaper, with partial neat erazure of same.