[A]⁴ B-M⁴; π¹ after [A]2; endleaves front and back are a 4-leaf blank sewn section.

[13,1] 2-24 [25] 26-35 [36] 37-8 [39] 40 [41] 42 [43] 44 [45] 46-54 [55] 56 [57-9] 60-3 [64-5] 66-71 [72] 73-80 [+4].

Crown 4^o: 10" × 7½", top edge only trimmed and gilt, artificial headband, white laid, Abbey Mills Greenfield + crown; 14pt. Caslon; line block illustrations; 2 collotype portraits on π1^v with protective tissue; casing, dark green buckram, spine gold-blocked up: ‘Marrot : Bulmer & Bensley’.

William Bulmer (d.1830) was a publisher and printer, friend of Thomas Bewick; Thomas Bensley (d.1835) was a prominent printer, an early work being his Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White.

See Simon 1973 p.247: Catalogue raisonné states this edition was of 300 copies, priced at 2 guineas (£2 2 shillings) also 25 copies on hand-made paper full bound in hard-grain morocco, priced 5 guineas, presumably Mfa.

This Aberystwyth copy is numbered 22.

• Bensley, Thomas, ca. 1760–1835 ODNB
• Bulmer, William, 1757–1830 NPG ODNB
• Caslon
• Caslon, 14pt.
• Fleuron, London
• Marrot, H. V. (Harold Vincent)
• Random House, New York

As Mf.

As Mf but π¹ after [A]2.

As Mf.

Crown 4^o: 10" × 7½", as Mf but artificial headbands, top edge gilt; 2 collotype? portraits on π1^v with protective tissue; bound full leather, raised bands to spine giving 6 compartments, gold-blocked, in 2nd: ‘BULMER | AND | BENSLEY’, in 3rd: ‘H.V. | MARROT’.

Douglas Ball, Aberystwyth, reported 1/Apr/1977 that their copy, numbered 9, is of the leather-bound fine-paper edition as described; see Simon 1973 p.247.

Binder's stamp inside back cover.

• Bensley, Thomas, ca. 1760–1835 ODNB
• Bulmer, William, 1757–1830 NPG ODNB
• Fleuron, London
• Henry T. Wood, London
• Marrot, H. V. (Harold Vincent)
• Random House, New York