1948. Fourth edition. 483 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Colour frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Some page corners folded. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Boards are slightly bowed.