No edition remarks. 452 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Colour illustration plates by Harold Piffard. Gilt edges to textblock. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding slightly loose. Front free endpaper missing. Minor pencil inscriptions to front. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering is slightly dulled.