1947. No edition remarks. 912 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrations throughout. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Heavy foxing to rear endpaper. Pencil inscription to rear pastedown. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Mild sunning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Rubbing to spine has obscured gilt lettering. Mild water droplets to rear board.