1899. No Edition Remarks. 431 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustration plates and fold out maps. Black and white photographic frontispiece with tissue guard. Pages bright with some tanning and foxing, particularly to textblock edges and endpapers. Some cracking to hinges with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Tissue guard to frontispiece detaching. Minor pencil annotations to endpapers. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.