Special Edition. 948 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Black and white frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Frontispiece tissue guard creased. Boards have moderate shelf wear with corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Some marks and staining to surfaces. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear.