1949. No Edition Remarks. 244 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Occasional thumb-marking present. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends, with splits to joints. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Dark marking to surfaces, with small scuffed mark to front board. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning.