No Edition Stated. 271 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth; gilt titles and decoration to front and spine. Illustrated by J Noel-Paton, including frontis with tissue guard. 40p publisher's adverts to rear, dated October 1886. Decorative endpapers. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. pp251 to end creased and dented to upper corners. Foxing more noticeable towards the start and end of the book. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and pre title page. Frontispiece's tissue guard is heavily foxed. Faint creases to some pages. Traces of prize plate to front endpaper. Block edges slightly tanned and a little uneven. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with bumping and fraying to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Small split starting to rear hinge. Slightly scratched overall. Boards a little rubbed and marked. Slight forward lean. Gilt is bright.