1912. Illustrated edition. 493 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Colour illustration plates with tissue guards by C.E. Brock. Rough cut edges to textblock. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Dedication to front free endpaper. A tissue guard detached. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.