No Edition Stated. 648 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt decoration front and spine. Includes photographic and illustrated plates, and illustrations embedded in text. All text block edges gilt. Pages moderately marked with pronounced tanning, foxing, plus thumbing. Previous owner's stamps to endpaper and frontis. Large silver foil between p334-5 is crumbling, has left dark brown stain. Plates clean with minor foxing. Foxing more noticeable towards the start and end of the book. Prize plate to front pastedown. Boards have heavy edge wear, with bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are crushed. Joints worn too. Heavy, mottled liquid stains front and rear. Spine is noticeably sunned. Boards rather rubbed, scratched and marked overall.