1948. Reprinted. 184 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations and plates. Slight crinkling to paper at gutter. Clean pages, illustrations and plates with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Top textblock edge dyed red. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards. Boards are bowed.