Rebound in red quarter bound leather on red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Although the spine states "Vol. 1", both volumes are bound into the single volume. Binding is square and tight. Scattered foxing to text, heavier foxing to first few pages. There is a small tape repair to the edge of one page.

Rebound in brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Foxing throughout text. Binding is sound and tight. No writing or markings.

Brown cloth with gilt titles and decorations. Ex-library with a pocket to rear endpaper, and black library markings to spine. Wear to tips. Hinges are cracked but holding. Decorative endpapers have been reinforced by book tape at hinges. "Merritt Collection" in pencil on front free endpaper. Previous owner's name on title page in pencil "J.P. Merritt" (author and archivist, Jedediah Prendergast Merritt). A newspaper clipping of a letter to the editor from Mr. Merritt, and a short handwritten note with an anecdote about Brant are laid in.

Rebound in red cloth with gilt title on spine. Binding is sound, square, and tight. Pages are toned and foxed, particularly to title page. Recipe pages are much cleaner. Handwritten Recipe for oat cakes in pencil on blank page facing title page. Handwritten recipe for fruit cake on a sheet of foxed and fragile paper is laid in. The fiftieth edition dates to the early to mid 1880s.

Corners are worn. Back hinge is cracked but holding well. Binding is a bit loose. Gift inscription dated 1930 on half-title page.

Bookplate to front pastedown. Crease to back free endpaper. Pages are slightly tanned. Hinges are sound. Text is clean, no writing/markings.

Purple cloth boards. Faded at spine. Gilt titles with black, white, and gilt decoration to front cover and spine. Neat gift inscription dated 1933 on front pastedown. No other writing/markings.

Signed by author on half-title page. Signed by illustrator on title page. Offsetting from an old newspaper clipping to page xv. Dust jacket has wear to edges at spine and tips, tear to back corner.

Binding is square and tight. No writing/markings.

Slight foxing to edge of text block.

Dust jacket has two inch tear to lower front corner.

Binding is sound and tight. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. No other writing or markings. Dust jacket has a tiny tear to top edge of spine.

Unused bookplate on front free endpaper.

Lower corner bumped. Spine slightly faded.

Pictorial boards in a pictorial dust jacket. Bookplate on front pastedown. Dust jacket has a bit of wrinkling along edges.

Foxing to edges of text block.

Previous owner's initials on half-title page. Dust jacket is browning along top edge, with a small nick to the top corner at spine.

Dust jacket has multiple short edge tears. Corners are slightly bumped.

Dust jacket has a tear to lower front corner, with associated crease. Binding is sound. No writing/markings.

Ex-library with the usual discard markings and pocket. Binding is sound and square. Dust jacket has a couple of short tears and a label mark to spine.