Editor’s short preface following title page dated 15th December, 1881.

A separate title page for this volume similar to the cover but without the advertising for Wratten & Wainwright’s dry plates, Meagher’s illustrated catalogue and cameras and Mawson’s Collodion immediately follows 32 advertising pages and the inserted frontis photogravure of Mungo Ponton at the beginning of the volume.

Verso of volume carries a full-page advertisement for Dallmeyer’s Photographic Lenses with the address of 19, Bloomsbury Street, London, W.C.