1884. No edition remarks. 372 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations and colour map. Volume I of II. Ex libris plate at front. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Book has strong forward lean.