Eighth Edition. 243 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Colour illustrations by Harold Copping. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is heavily dulled but remains slightly brighter on front. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.