1899. No edition remarks. 467 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout. Gilt top edge to textblock. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding slightly loose. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. 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. Some additional heavy marks and staining.