1897. No Edition Remarks. 426 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustration plates. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Rough cut edges to textblock. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding slightly loose. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Some underlining and marginalia. 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. Some additional marks and staining.