Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

Early copies carry lithographic versions of three illustrations, namely the frontispiece and the plates facing pages 66 and 225, printed first by William West and, in later copies, redrawn by Thomas Picken for Day & Son, each captioned 'Published by John Murray, Albemarle St, May 1857'; as stocks of these lithographs were exhausted they were replaced by plain woodcuts after J. W. Whymper, and bibliographers (Abbey, Renard, Bradlow) have long disputed the exact priority of the resulting states, so no single binding-and-illustration combination should be treated as a certain first issue