My Last Tour and First Work; A Visit to the Baths of Wildbad and Rippoldsau Lady Vavasour
1842. No Edition Stated. 458 pages. Half bound black leather with marbled paper covered boards. Book has been rebound. Marbled endpapers, pastedowns, and text block edges. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Creasing and some light cracking to gutters of a few pages. Occasional thumb-marking present. Small tear and minor dark mark to top edge of title page. Cracking to hinges with exposed binding. Minor dog-eared corners. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Leather peeling to edges and corners, with noticeable scuffing and scratches overall. Slight loss to leather to corners of boards. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning.