1949. No Edition Noted. 454 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Brown cloth with a photographic black and white frontis and plates throughout. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Minor tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to endpapers and pastedowns and visible foxing, ink marks and tanning to text block edges. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Book is shaky. Boards have heavy rubbing and edge wear. Major bumping to corners and fair crushing to spine ends. Major rubbing to spine and fraying to cloth at corners and spine ends.