Rajah Brooke: The Englishman as Ruler of an Eastern State by Spenser St John
1899. No Edition Remarks. 302 pages. No dust jacket. Red illustrated cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece and folded maps. Hinges are slightly cracked with exposed netting. Clean pages and maps with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil writings to pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen and pencil annotations and marginalia to pages throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Moderate splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.