1859. No edition remarks. 308 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustration plates with tissue guards. Ex libris plate at front belonging to Robert Mitford, famous ornithologist and illustrator. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Heavy cracking to hinges and gutters. Binding loose and some pages detached (but present) and detaching at front. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.