1738. No Edition Remarks. 40 pages. Fully bound in brown leather with gilt decoration and lettering to spine with raised bands. Black & white frontispiece and several plates. Sections separately paginated. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Front hinge cracked with exposed netting. Binding is weakened but remains firm. Front free endpaper torn out and missing. Small pencil and pen inscriptions to pastedowns and reverse of frontispiece. Faint water staining to lower corner of many pages, including title page and its reverse, not affecting text. Heavy thumb-marking present. Boards have heavy edge-wear; bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Small splits to upper and lower joints. Gilt lettering is dulled. Marked peeling and tearing to leather at spine ends and edges, particularly front and back fore edges. Heavy surface wear also. Small label to spine.