1905. No edition remarks. 300 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Colour illustration plates. Gilt top edge to textblock. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Some cracking to hinges and gutters. Binding slightly loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Book has slight forward lean.