First edition, first printing. 280pp, with plate frontispiece and eight pages of half-tone illustrations. 8vo. Cloth rubbed and rounded on corners and spine ends, small white mark on front panel. Text block edges spotted and lightly toned. Previous owner's stamp on front free endpaper. Gutter cracked ahead of title page, pages well-fingered with the occasional smudge mark. Slightly slanted. In its original dust wrapper, worn and torn, sunned over the spine and toned on verso.
