First edition, second impression. xxxvi, 488pp, with plate illustrations, maps, plans etc. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. 8vo. Boards are clean, crisp and square. There is a flamboyant gift inscription on the front free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust wrapper, a little shelf worn and sunned around spine, price clipped. Dust jacket now protected in an archival quality Mylar wrapper fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.