xii, 312pp; some illustrated plates. Blue cloth-covered boards; gilt portrait on front, gilt titles on spine; top text block edge gilt, remaining edges untrimmed. 4to. Sun-faded, rubbed spine heel, gilt on portrait fading, some mottling. Fore and bottom text block edges tanning. Endpapers starting to fox and tan; pages ageing, light foxing to prelims. Otherwise, internally neat, clean and tight.
