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Imprint: London and Edinburgh: Printed by Richard Taylor and William Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, London, and Neill and Company, High Street, Edinburgh. 1858 [1859].

Quarto volume, quarter leather and brown pebbled cloth binding, measuring 290 x 233 mm, coat of arms in gilt and upper and lower boards; blue paper cover bound in; pp. v, 463-604, with two albumen prints pasted in, one on the tritlepage, the second immediately preceding the index. The discrepancy between the publication date of 1858 on the titlepage and the preface dated February 1859, is explained by Smyth in the preface: The following pages represent books 7, 8, and 9 of the MS. 'Teneriffe Report of 1856,' and have been very liberally printed at the expense of the Lords Commmissioners of the Admiralty; through the medium of the Royal Society of London from pp. 463 to 534, with plates 30 to 39; and through the intervention of G. B. Airy Esq., Astronomer Royal, from page 535 to the conclusion.The whole of the MS., had been communicated by their Lordships to the above Society on the 2d June 1857, in expectation of its being immediately published in the 'Philosophical Transaction;' but after a period of ten months, the Council objected to undertake more than books 7 and 8, and did not conclude the printing of these two until the end of January 1859. The extra copies struck off for the Admiralty (under previous arrangement) being delivered a few days afterwards to the Astronomer Royal, were completed by the addition of the remaining book.'