originally edited by Robert Chambers. new edition, revised under the care of the publishers. with a supplemental volume, continuing the biographies to the present time, by the Rev. Thos. Thomson. with numerous portraits
Blackie & Son, 1856.
5 volumes. illustrated with engraved portraits.a little occasional foxing, but generally very clean.
handsomely bound in full polished tree calf. red and green leather lettering pieces to the spines. elaborate gilt decoration to spines. just a little wear to spines.
heraldic book-plates.