First edition, first printing. 268pp, with black and white illustrations in text and numerous colour plate illustrations. Brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Yellow endpapers. 8vo. Cloth just a little pushed at spine ends. Previous owner's name inked on the front free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original glossy, illustrated dust wrapper, bumped and rubbed on extreme edges, a little shelf worn and compressed around spine.
