xvi, 286pp, numerous black and white illustrations and chapter headers. Pictorial blue cloth-covered boards, black titles on front and spine; illustrated endpapers. 12mo. Sun-faded spine, two small areas of loss; rubbed corners and spine ends, cloth fraying, front board cracked, rear board broken. Top text block edge dust marked, remaining edges tanning, starting to fox. Bookplate on front pastedown. Page margins tanning. Gutters cracked and strained, volume quite loose. Otherwise, internally neat and clean.
