The London edition. 571 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound red leather with red cloth covered boards and gilt lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers. Colour and black and white illustration plates by Sibson and H.K. Browne. s throughout. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Boards have heavy wear with bumped and abraded corners. Spine ends similarly worn and spine itself strongly scuffed. Gilt dulled. Board surfaces scratched and rubbed.