1900. Tenth edition. 335 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout. Fold-out colour frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding slightly loose. Minor pen and pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper and frontispiece. 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. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.