No edition remarks. 694 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Contains black and white, and colour photographic plates and in-text illustrations. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout, heavier at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting causing the binding to be shaky. Large crack at front board. Remains of pasted in news paper at front paste-down. Previous owner inscription to front. Free end-paper. Newspaper pasted to damp stained rear paste down. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Book has a slight forward lean. Minor fraying to cloth at spine ends. Mild crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Hole and additional wear in spine cloth edges.