8vo. In two volumes. lii, 281, [1]; [3], 283-628pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-roan, marbled boards, marbled edges. Extremities worn, loss to spines. Marbled endpapers, early inked ownership inscriptions to head of both titles, scattered foxing.

The first edition of a early Victorian guide to the major public art galleries of England's capital, with 'catalogues of the pictures, accompanied by critical, historical, and bibliographical notices, and copious indexes to facilitate reference'.