The set is ex "Fountain Barber's Circulating Library, Collins Street East, Melbourne. Both volumes carry its label on the front cover, the one on volume two partially removed. There is also another label beneath, its provenance covered by the later one . It is also ex Coleraine Mechanics' Institute, its sticker on the front paste down. In volume I the front end paper has been roughly removed and both volumes carry handwritten accession number. Both volumes suffer from light intermittent foxing.Volume one: The half title page is stained blue from the front paste down; the paster down carries a white streak along the lower inner edge, due to loss from the paste down. Overall in both volumes the pages are clean and unmarked and the binding solid. "Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, PC (8 November 1831 - 24 November 1891), was an English statesman, Conservative politician and poet who used the pseudonym Owen Meredith. "