1896. No Edition Stated. 148 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Review copy with paper slip tucked into front of book. Publisher's catalogue to rear. Rough-cut pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers. Slight cracking to gutters of a few pages. However, binding remains firm. Occasional thumb-marking present. Some light pencil marginalia to pages. Tear to fore edge of page 40, text remains readable. Small tear to edge of front free endpaper. Uneven text block edges with creases and small tears. Last couple of pages are uncut. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and dark rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with small splits and fraying to cloth. Notable tanning to spine and edges. Some brown water staining to front board. Damp staining to spine, with small bleached mark. Small area of loss to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean.