No edition remarks. 780 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Colour illustration plates. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding slightly loose. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Previous owner's name label to front pastedown. 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 to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Some additional mild marks and staining.