1890. 316 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Rough cut pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, creased corners and foxing. A few pages are uncut, thus unread. Water marks to page edges and corners. Boards have been heavily rub worn with heavy shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a heavily frayed and spine ends are crushed, with some small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Loss to top of spine. Splitting to spine joints and ends.