The Playground Of Europe by Leslie Stephen
1871. First Edition. 321 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Rebacked with new spine and most of the original cloth. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Pencil annotations and marginalia to a few pages. Thumb-marking present. Gutters reinforced in places. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and boards with crushing to spine ends. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.