1897. No Edition Remarks. 452 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Occasional thumb-marking present. Cracking to hinges with exposed binding, causing boards to be slightly loose. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth.Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Library marking to spine.