1897. New edition. 406 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Presentation plate to front pastedown. Gilt edges to textblock. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. 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.