1903. New Edition. 661 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Volume I of III. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Small newspaper cutting to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.