First edition, first impression. 322pp, with tipped in colour plate frontispiece, numerous full page colour plates, and many further illustrations in text (including one further tipped in colour plate). Russet cloth boards with gilt lettering. Russet endpapers. Large and heavy Folio. Boards very slightly bumped on extreme lower corners. There are residue tape marks on the paste downs else the volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original dust wrapper, not price clipped, a little compressed over spine, rippled on upper panel suggestive of old water damage, and cut slightly short (likely a manufacturing fault).
