1896. No edition remarks. 343 pages. No dust jacket. Marbled paper covered boards and gilt lettering to leather spine. Volume I. In German. Book has been rebound. Small address label of linguist John Trim to front pastedown. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding slightly loose. Front free endpaper missing. Previous owner's name label, pen numbers, and small bookshop label to front pastedown. Extensive ink underlining and marginalia. Slight water staining and waviness to last few pages and rear pastedown, not affecting the text. Boards have heavy wear with bumped and abraded corners. Spine ends similarly worn and spine itself strongly scuffed. Gilt dulled. Board surfaces scratched and rubbed. Heavy splits to joints.