1st Edition 1862.From the library of Richard Adams the writer of Watership Down. This being his own personal copy. Full provenance and with a Richard Adams bookplate attached to the front endpaper. 40 wood engravings by J.E. Millais. Bound in a Victorian three quarter leather calf and marbled board binding .Both books are good++ and quite bright. Both volumes have rubbing at the extremities. Hinges holding well but rubbed in places. Edge rubbed and surface marked/ soiled. Corners bumped. Contents quite good with the usual moderate foxing to some pages.