Second Edition. 238 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustration plates throughout. Ex library copy with associated labels, inserts, stamps and annotations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Some cracking to hinges and gutters with exposed netting. Front free endpaper missing. A previous owner's name at front. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces. Boards are slightly bowed.