First English language edition. Colour plate frontispiece, 80pp of text followed by 106 plate illustrations. Orange cloth-covered boards with gilt titles front and spine. 4to. cloth is a little tired, unevenly faded and gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Some pencil annotations and a small sticker on spotted front endpapers, rear endpapers similarly spotted, else internally neat, clean, and tight. In a brown and brittle dust wrapper, chapped around edges, with tear and associated creasing on rear panel, with some loss.
