1896. English edition. 207 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Translated from the second, enlarged German edition. Introduction by J Starkie Gardner. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Heavy cracking to hinges with lots of exposed netting. Binding loose. Several slight paint stains and other marks to some pages; text remains clear. Boards have moderate 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. Some additional moderate paint marks and staining. Boards are slightly bowed. Name in pencil to front board.