1896. No Edition Remarks. 253 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Volume I. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers. Slight cracking to gutters of a few pages. Some light water staining to edges of pages, heavier to plate to start of Milton section. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Book is slightly forward leaning. Light tanning and foxing to spine and edges.