1880. No Edition Stated. 229 pages. No dust jacket. Beige paper covered boards with blue decorations and gilt lettering. St Frideswide's Library plate to front pastedown. Severe cracking to gutters and hinges causing boards and binding to be loose. Rough-cut pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing. Heavier to endpapers, pastedowns, and text block edges. Minor dog-eared corners. Faint thumb-marking with other markings throughout. Text is clear. Previous owner's inscriptions in pen to front endpapers. Small bookseller sticker to rear pastedown. Minor brown staining to fore edge of text block. Text is unaffected. Boards have heavy edge wear with corner bumping. Visible tanning to spine and edges with some crushing to spine ends. Large splits to joints with loss to spine ends. Heavy markings with minor staining overall. Scuffing to edges and spine. Gilt lettering is darkened. Decorations are slightly faded. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning.