1948. Third edition. 851 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white photographs. Colour frontispiece. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding slightly loose. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Boards are slightly bowed.