Description
FIRST EDITION, wholly engraved, calligraphic text, frontispiece, title-page, 8 section titles, profusely illustrated and decorated; slightly toned with the odd spot, ff. [146] engraved, with a few blanks at end, 8vo, late eighteenth-century German rococo binding of full red morocco, gilt, boards with ornate floral tooling, central crucifix motif, initials J.W.O and date 1770 embossed on upper cover, gilt edges, marbled endpapers; wanting the front free endpaper, slightly shaken with minor wear to extremities, with a well-preserved contemporary slipcase (blind tooled brown leather, paste paper-lined and blind embossed interior - a little bumped and chipped), very good
