No Edition Remarks. 579 pages. No dust jacket. Blue illustrated cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains colour illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to half title page. Moderate water staining to pastedowns, free endpapers and frontispiece. Heavy thumb-marking present on textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards.