1846. No Edition Remarks. 286 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound leather with marbled paper covered boards. Black & white illustrations. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Heavier tanning and foxing to textblock edges. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Newspaper clippings pasted to rear endpapers. Water staining and thumb-marking present throughout. Splits to joints. Gilt lettering is heavily darkened. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Prominent fraying to cloth at spine ends. Scratches to leather and discolouration to boards.