4to. viii; 380pp. Original publisher’s binding. Red leather spine with red buckram cover. Five compartments to spine, all decorated in guilt. Covers also with gilt title and decorations. Marbled edges. Spine’s leather rubbed at hinge; 1/2 cm closed crack where top of spine meets rear board. Internally very clean. Binding is firm and all plates are present and in impeccable condition. Twelve etchings. (by Hubert Herkomer, A.H.Haig, Birket Foster, C.Napier Hemy, David Law, etc.) 12 engravings. 8 facsimiles from drawings. 4 engravings from sculpture. Full colour chromolithograph of Satsuma Faience. A rare, complete edition of the Art Journal from the year 1881.
