1896. No edition remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout by author. Black and white frontispiece. Ex libris plate at front. Gilt top edge to textblock. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Frontispiece detached. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.