First edition. 248pp, line drawn colour frontispiece. Tan cloth-covered boards; gilt illustration on front, gilt titles on spine; illustrative chapter heads, occasional black and white line drawings. 12mo. Heavily sun-faded spine, light wear to extremities. Text block edges tanned and starting to fox. Endpapers lightly foxed. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.