The Blotting Book by E.F. Benson
1908. No Edition Remarks. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers. Water staining to rear pastedown. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Paper remnants to publication page, page may have been removed. Minor black marks to top edge of text-block. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with small splits. Light tanning to spine and edges. Red marking to rear board. Some scuffed marking to both boards, with slight loss to lettering to spine and front board. Book is forward leaning.