8vo. In 15 parts. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's orange printed paper wrappers. Some loss, chipping, and spots of marking to all extremities, parts 3 and 5 without upper wrappers, lower wrappers of parts 3, 13, and 15 detached, both wraps of part 10 detached, gatherings of parts 5 and 10 separating. Overall internally clean and crisp but for some light foxing.

A rare survival, in the original 15 separate parts, of this seminal dictionary of proverbs and folklore by lexicographer, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1810-1897), which was first published in 1870.

Rare in this state, with COPAC recording a single copy (Cambridge).