1879. No edition remarks. 304 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout. Black and white frontispiece with tissue guard. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding slightly loose. A previous owner's name to half-title page. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.