[4], 78pp, one colour illustration followed by 123 full page monochrome plate illustrations. Glossy, illustrated stiff card covers. 4to. Some edge wear to card covers, rubbed on extreme corners with one corner lifting. Covers slightly shelf worn. Internally pages have some warpage and waviness else neat. clean, bright and tight throughout.
This Dover edition is an unabridged, lightly corrected republication of the working originally published in 1924. It contains 124 numbered plates from the original edition, the full colour frontispiece from the original edition being reproduced inside the front cover.
