1890. No edition remarks. 544 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white diagrams. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. Pen and pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Book has strong forward lean. Boards are slightly bowed.