Octavo olive gilt pictorial cloth (tips worn/damage to head & foot of spine and some ink spotting to spine/tips worn but binding sound and gilt pictorial cover bright) x +413pp. Inner hinges strengthened, titlepage seems to be a cancel. Frontis misbound at page 306 and usual paper toning especially to edges. One opening with minor tea-stains but otherwise a clean, crisp copy. News clipping laid in from the Daily Graphic of Dec. 1895 announcing the death of Sala.