1900. No edition remarks. 596 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustration plates by Chris Hammond. Black and white frontispiece with tissue guard. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Tissue guard of frontispiece detached. 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 dulled but remains brighter on front.