318pp, [2][pp publisher's ads, some in-text black and white illustrations. Blue cloth-covered boards; black titles on front and spine; top text block edge sprayed black; illustrated endpapers. 8vo. Sun-faded spine, lightly rubbed corners and spine ends. Top text block edge tanning, remaining edges starting to tan; all edges foxing. Front free endpaper missing, half title and frontispiece loosely laid-in; foxing to early pages; gutters cracked and strained, volume very loose; pages ageing. Otherwise, internally neat and clean.