1961. No Edition Remarks. 901 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Detached colour plate. Pages remain bright and clean. Binding slightly loose. Many dedications to front endpapers wishing happy retirement. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.