No edition remarks. 448 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Some additional moderate marks and staining. Book has slight forward lean.