The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
1887. New Edition. 455 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with a with a black and white illustrated frontis. Moderate tanning to pages with pencil inscriptions to front endpaper. Slight dog-eared pages throughout and minor tanning to text block edges. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Binding is loose. Boards have visible rubbing and heavy bumping to corners. Major crushing to spine ends and splitting to joints. There is fraying to cloth at corners and spine ends.