First edition, fourth printing. xxx, 302pp, with some illustrations in text and followed by 100 plate illustrations. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Large 8vo. Boards are lightly marked and a little rubbed around corners, spine ends and joints. Text block edges dull. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring a small spot mark on the rear endpapers. In its original illustrated dust wrapper, shelf worn worn, chapped all round edges, chipped and crumbling at spine ends and corners.
