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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;elarnia, post: 2769986, member: 159&quot;]Yes - it seems that there were 5 vols. 4 of plates and one of text describing the plates.&nbsp; The link to alibris describes what they have as &quot;4 vols., total of 104 b&amp;w plates, in four printed paper portfolios&quot;.&nbsp; The one I got is a hardcover bound book of all 104 plates. The cover is cloth covered bookboard with the title page of Vol. 1 pasted down on it.&nbsp; Very much a library style binding. Likely the person who had it bound did not have Vol. 5.&nbsp; Several sources list it as being published 4 or 5 years after the 4 portfolios, so there probably would have been quite a few owners of the first 4 who never got the 5th one.</p><p><br /></p><p>The paste down cover, the preface citing 4 vols. plus a text vol., and the fact that I haven&#039;t found any references to a bound edition of all 104 plates despite the likelihood that such an edition would survive in saleable condition more often than loose portfolios, all lead me to suspect that this is a one-off binding job, and not a separate edition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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