First edition. viii, 246pp, portrait plate frontispiece and further black and white plate illustrations. Red publisher's cloth-covered boards, black titles front and spine. 8vo. Cloth a little worn and marked, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and ends of a lightly sunned spine. Bookseller's small ticket on front paste down. A hint of toning to endpapers and text block edges else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.