2 volumes, 4to (330 x 249 mm). Half-title in Vol. I, illustrated. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED BY THE ADDITION OF APPROXIMATELY 280 PLATES OF PORTRAITS, VIEWS, AND MAPS and 9 MANUSCRIPTS AND DRAWINGS (see below). (Some minor toning, spotting, or offsetting.) 20th-century half brown morocco gilt, top edges gilt, stamp-signed by Bradstreet's (slight wear to extremities). Provenance: David McNeely Stauffer (1845-1913), American civil engineer and editor (bookplates).

EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BY THE ADDITION OF WOODCUT, MEZZOTINT, ENGRAVED OR LITHOGRAPHED PLATES, MAPS, AND VIEWS, AND MANUSCRIPTS, including: Autographed letter signed from Charles Roach Smith to an unnamed recipient regarding Fairholt's work -- Autographed letter signed from Fairholt to an unnamed recipient. -- 6 original drawings by David McNeely Stauffer -- OGILBY/MONTANUS. Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali cum terris adiacentibus. [London: John Ogilby, ca 1671]. Engraved map. – Advertising circulars for J. A. & H. J. Jenkins, Grocers & Tobacconists High Street, St. Albans, with woodcut devices – plates after William Hogarth, Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Bernard Picart, Arthur Pond, Francesco Bartolozzi and others, all depicting historic or artistic figures, or scenes depicting tobacco use by various cultures across the globe. 

A later edition of Fairholt’s principal work on tobacco, first published in 1859. Fairholt, whose father was a tobacco manufacturer, started working in the family business before working as an artist; he was later employed by Charles Knight.