xx, 366pp, with tissue-guarded portrait plate frontispiece. Tan cloth-covered boards; gilt design and author's initials on front, gilt titles on spine; fore and bottom text block edges untrimmed. Title page printed in red and black. 8vo. Sun-faded spine, lightly rubbed corners and spine ends with cloth fraying. Text block edges tanning. Endpapers foxing and tanning; frontispiece tissue-guard foxing affecting neighbouring pages; pages starting to age; gutters cracked and strained, volume quite loose. Otherwise internally neat and clean.
