New Zealand - Graphic and Descriptive - The Illustrations by Charles D Barraud and the Text by W T L Travers, F.L.S

Published by Avon Fine Prints Ltd, Christchurch New Zealand, 1973.
Limited / numbered edition facsimile of the original Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London 1877 edition. Number 885 of 1000 copies.
XXX elephant folio - 45 cm x 58cm high. Bound in 3/4 burgundy leather and cloth boards with ornate decorated titles on the front cover. Boards have fading to top edges. Internally the pages are clean and bright bar some spotting at the top of the grey-blue endpapers and immediately adjacent pages. It appears the top portion of the book hmay have been exposed to damp. there is a slight musty smell.
List of (full-page) illustrations include 1 map on NZ and 25 Chromo-Lithographs, with 6 plates of plain Lithographs (19 illustrations in total therein) and 31 woodcuts interspersed throughout text.
A nice copy of a scarce book.