8vo. 137pp, [3]. Contemporary richly gilt-tooled dark brown straight-grain morocco, A.E.G, gilt dentelles, turquoise moire silk doublures surrounded by elaborately tooled dentelles, matching moire silk free endpapers. A trifle rubbed.

A handsome copy, likely bound for presentation, of the sixty-second annual report of The Royal Humane Society, a British charity dedicated to lifesaving intervention in cases of accidental and sudden death, such as drowning, strangling, apoplexy, and suffocation. Founded in 1774 as the Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned, for the purpose of deploying first aid in situations of near drowning, the organisation gained the patronage of the Queen by 1886 and awarded money and medals to those who engaged in lifesaving and drowning prevention.