1950. Reprinted. 326 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout by Stuart Tresilian. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to rear hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. Heavy inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Book has very strong forward lean.