No Edition Remarks. 496 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding loose. frontispiece tissue guard creased. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Some marks and staining to surfaces. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear.