A New Edition. 484 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth covered boards with blind stamping, decoration and gilt. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Further illustrations throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout, heavier at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Minor pencil marking to reverse of front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Moderate tanning to spine, darkening the gilt.