1852. No edition remarks. 271 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. 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 front free endpaper. Newspaper clipping affixed to front pastedown. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly dulled. Some additional marks and staining.