54pp, 288 black and white illustrations. Grey cloth-covered boards; black design and titles on front, black titles on spine; bevelled board edges. 4to. Sun-faded, rubbed corners and spine ends, bottom rear corner bumped (affecting pages). Text block edges tanning. Endpapers foxing and tanning; pencilled gift inscription on front pastedown; newspapers clippings opposite title page, previous owner's name on title page, further newspaper clippings on copyright and preface pages. Pages tanning and prelims foxing otherwise internally neat, clean and tight.
