No Edition Remarks. 1097 pages. No dust jacket. Blue boards with gilt lettering to spine. Colour frontispiece and black & white illustrations throughout by T.M. Matterson and Alexander Anderson. Binding shaky. Front hinge cracked with netting exposed. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. There is bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges. Gilt lettering is darkened slightly. Boards are bowed slightly. Splits to joints at spine head.