1949. No Edition Remarks. 622 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white, and colour illustrated plates, with black and white in-text photographs. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Occasional thumb-marking present. Light scuffing to text-block edges. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Notable sunning to spine ends and edges. Scuffing and dark water stained marking to boards. Book is notably bowed and forward leaning.