1844. No edition remarks. 304 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations. Rough cut edges to textblock. Pages with some heavy foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Heavy cracking to hinges and gutters. Binding loose. Some ink marginalia. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Some additional moderate marks and staining.