Hardcover
1894 · London
by Burton, Sir Richard F.; Isabel Burton (ed.)
London: Tylston and Edwards, 1894. Memorial edition. Hardcover. vg+ to fine. Octavo. Original black cloth with gilt-stamped illustration and lettering on cover, gilt lettering on spines; housed in three matching slipcases. Red top edges. Frontispiece portrait of Lady Burton with frontispieces in color, b/w in all other volumes, tissue guards. Contains 3 maps, one of them folding, plans, some folding, one in color, 17 chromolithographic plates, and 21 b/w plates, with four works in seven volumes, all edited by his wife: Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, 1893, 2 vols.; Vikram and the Vampire or Tales of Hindu Delivery, 1893; (truncated)