described by Edward Strahan (pseudonym of Earl Shinn), Boston: Published by George Barrie, 1883-4, four volumes bound in three quarter leather over blue ribbed cloth, with five raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, one of 500 copies, unnumbered, the "Japan Edition," each volume is illustrated throughout with black and white text illustrations, plates of photogravures, chromolithographs, color photochromes with captioned tissue guards and mounted on hard stock, a record of Vanderbilt's New York home and his collections

Provenance: Private Collection, Asheville, North Carolina

light wear, slight loss at the extremities, and on the frontispiece of Volume IV there is residual paper on the plate where the tissue guard had once stuck to the plate, some tissue guards with creases, one color plate in Volume I with crease/small tear to hard stock, otherwise near fine condition