first edition, [one of 300 copies], presentation copy inscription "To the Right Honble The Lord Chancellor from the Commissioners of the Northern Light Houses" to front free endpaper, engraved frontispiece after Turner, additional engraved title and 21 engraved plates (many double-page), tissue guards, light offsetting, a few scattered spots, bookplate to upper pastedown, contemporary half calf, backstrip detached, upper cover becoming loose, rather scuffed and rubbed, edges uncut and many ff unopened, [Skempton 1448], 4to, Edinburgh, 1824.
first edition, [one of 300 copies], presentation copy inscription "To the Right Honble The Lord Chancellor from the Commissioners of the Northern Light Houses" to front free endpaper, engraved frontispiece after Turner, additional engraved title and 21 engraved plates (many double-page), tissue guards, light offsetting, a few scattered spots, bookplate to upper pastedown, contemporary half calf, backstrip detached, upper cover becoming loose, rather scuffed and rubbed, edges uncut and many ff unopened, [Skempton 1448], 4to, Edinburgh, 1824.
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